Bio
Taq Karim is currently Staff Software Engineer at Peloton, where he works on the leaderboard team. Previously, Taq worked on ETL pipelines and backend APIs at Moat - a third party attribution service for programmatic advertisements owned by Oracle. Before that, Taq helped build and scale a programmatic advertising exchange platform for out of home media. He also moonlights as a lecturer, currently he is an Adjunct Professor at Baruch College where he teaches a graduate level course on technologies for managing Big Data. In the past, he has led workshops and courses on a wide variety of topics (frontend / backend) in institutions such as Coalition 4 Queens (now Pursuit), The Startup Institute, NYCDA, OneMonth, The King’s College and Columbia Splash. In his spare time, Taq is usually thinking about math, building software, working on hardware hacks for home automation or hanging out with his cat, Layla Karim.