Saad Khalid

CS @ McMasterU

SWE @ Scotiabank


Previously

Technology Consulting @ EY

Infrastructure Engineering @ Shopify

Backend dev @ Aviato

Core dev @ PadawanDAO

North American finalist in Microsoft's Imagine Cup

Re-implemented the U-NET paper

Shipped an anonymized chat app at Buildspace Nights and Weekends

Developed CNNs from first-principles. Work can be found here.

Current Projects

Simple Autodiff

Autodiff implementation from first-principles

npager.com

Generate and share variable length briefing docs from a single prompt

aws-tui

Terminal UI for browsing AWS EC2, S3 and more

PDF Viewer

A modern PDF viewer with great UX and LLM integrations

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Writing

The competitive landscape has changed, and young people need to adapt04/01/2026
Why I'm making a PDF viewer04/03/2025
"Learning" in the age of LLMs22/06/2024
Deliberate, constant self-reflection. Thoughts and analysis.15/10/2022

Links

Signaling as a Service04/01/2026
My experience with Claude Code 20 and how to get better at using coding agents02/01/2026
Is thinking about stuff out of fashion?25/12/2025
Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds24/12/2025
Signalling (Economics)21/12/2025
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Last Updated: 21/12/2025
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