M. Tanzil Idrisi — workspace

M. Tanzil Idrisi

I build programming languages, low-latency systems, and companies. Outhad AI is my third. My first, FractalXR, was acquired when I was 18, straight out of school. CS and math at Beloit, currently writing a Functional Programming language called Franz.

currently
  • Founding Convertive by Outhad AI, redefining how customers interact with a store. Incubated by genera8tor. (opens in a new tab)
  • Writing Franz, a functional language in C with LLVM native compilation and Rust-like safety. (opens in a new tab)
  • Exploring transformers, diffusion models, LLMs, and computer vision.
  • Working on side projects, and busy writing something.
worked at
Shopify2025 Google2024 Meta2023 Carnegie Mellon2023 DAAD · Lübeck2024 Beloit College2023

work

Eight roles, 2022 to now

Founding and engineering across startups, big tech infrastructure, and academic research labs.

Convertive by Outhad AI

currentSep 2024 — now

CTO & CEO · Madison, Wisconsin

  • A genera8tor (gBeta) incubated startup improving how end users search retailers, closing the gap between what you say and what you get using generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing, and deep learning.

Shopify

May — Aug 2025

Software Engineer Intern · San Francisco, California

  • Built a scalable ads auction system in Go handling 10M+ daily requests at p95 under 120ms.
  • Maintained 99.9% auction availability across multi-AZ Kubernetes deployment and failover.
  • Shipped a feature-flag service powering checkout experiments with automated rollout controls.
  • Reduced PostgreSQL load 40% with Redis caching for sub-millisecond metadata lookups.
  • Processed billions of events with Airflow pipelines, distributed tracing, and automated recovery.

Google

Jul — Sep 2024

Software Engineer Fellow · Remote

  • Selected from 400+ applicants for a competitive 10-week program built around hands-on projects, interview preparation, and technical workshops.
  • Received one-on-one mentorship from Google engineers and collaborated with peers on production practices.

DAAD German Academic Exchange Service

May — Aug 2024

Undergraduate Research Fellow · Lübeck, Germany

  • Innovated a noise-aware 3D U-Net, improving PET image quality by 15% and surpassing baseline U-Net performance.
  • Worked on AG-PET, an anatomically guided multimodal U-Net for PET denoising.
  • Constructed a patch-based NAFNET noise-aware fusion network.
  • Built a self-supervised diffusion model made noise-aware to improve denoising accuracy.
  • Presented findings at the IEEE NSS Medical Imaging Conference 2024 in Tampa, Florida.

supervisors · Ezzat Elmoujarkach, Magdalena Rafecas

Carnegie Mellon University

Aug 2023 — Jan 2024

Machine Learning Research Intern, School of Computer Science · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • Developed a Python mobile system for 3D face reconstruction from 2D images, supporting cancer and cosmetic surgery planning.
  • Leveraged a GAN trained with PyTorch, achieving a 90.2% accuracy rate on the LFW dataset.
  • Used DLib to identify 68 key facial landmarks, with SciPy, PyMesh, and Matplotlib.

supervisor · Dr. Ganesh Mani

Beloit College

Aug 2023 — May 2024

Data Science Engineer · Beloit, Wisconsin

  • Developed a Python desktop application for task automation, saving $10K+ by producing custom financial aid letters in house rather than through an outsourced service.

Meta

May — Aug 2023

Software Engineer Intern · Menlo Park, California

  • Built Vision Transformer optimizations for large-scale video understanding across Meta production systems.
  • Designed adaptive token sampling in PyTorch and integrated it into Reels video understanding pipelines.
  • Reduced transformer inference latency and FLOPs by 25%, cutting production compute costs by 10%.

outLfy

Oct 2022 — Aug 2024

Co-Founder & CEO · United States, remote

  • Provided custom AI solutions to companies, from marketing and branding to data-driven tooling.
  • Focused primarily on the financial and e-commerce sectors.
  • Specialized in helping small and medium enterprises grow efficiently and cost-effectively.

projects

Twenty-nine things I shipped

Compilers and runtimes, trading systems, AI infrastructure, and applied models. Filter by technology or pick a family from the tree.

29 of 29

research

Three papers, seven talks

Efficient inference and caching, contextual bandits for e-commerce, and low-dose PET reconstruction.

publications3

Paired Replacement: Differential Cache Maintenance for Dynamic Sparse and Mixture-of-Experts Inference

AIML Systems Conference 2026 · accepted · Oct 2026

forthcomingEfficient InferenceMixture-of-ExpertsCaching

Timeline-Weighted Contextual Bandits for Real-Time E-Commerce Intervention

Preprint 2026 · Zenodo · representation, benchmarks, and an honest off-policy study

doi ↗(opens in a new tab) Contextual BanditsOff-PolicyE-Commerce
talks7

ContextKit: Multimodal Graph Memory Architecture for AI

Apr 7, 2025

National Conference of Undergraduate Research · Pittsburgh, PA

C-PETAL-3D: Classification Driven Progressive Elimination of Noise Towards Accurate Ultra Low Dose PET Images Using 3D U-Nets

Oct 28, 2024

IEEE NSS MIC RTSD 2024 · Tampa, FL

ContextKit: Memory Layer for Long Running Agents

Oct 23, 2024

Mid-States Consortium · University of Chicago

Efficient Hyperparameter Optimization through Sparse Sampling and Robust Tensor PCA

Apr 10, 2024

National Conference of Undergraduate Research · Miami, FL

Quantization Optimization: Autoencoders and Lloyd-Max for Data Compression

Oct 23, 2023

Mid-States Consortium · University of Chicago

Pooling Convolutional Capsule Network

Apr 12, 2023

National Conference of Undergraduate Research · UW–Eau Claire

Pooling Convolutional Capsule Network

Oct 23, 2022

Mid-States Consortium · University of Chicago

personal

About, reading, writing

The parts that are not a repository.

about

I’m primarily a technical builder and serial founder. Outhad AI is my third company. My first, FractalXR, was acquired by Boxally when I was 18, straight out of school. outLfy came second. My academic background is in applied math, CS, and quantitative economics, with splashes of philosophy, physics, and psychology.

Lately I’ve been designing Franz, a functional programming language built in C with LLVM native compilation — a tiny, keyword-free functional core with prototype-oriented objects, Rust-like safety, lexical scoping, and deterministic replay.

I spend a lot of time building Convertive by Outhad AI, reading works by Jeffrey Archer, Jaun Elia, and J.K. Rowling, and playing and watching cricket.

Repository is private

Slime Code is still in stealth, so the repository is not public. Reach out on LinkedIn if you want to talk about it.

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