Taus Noor

Engineering Leader

2023 - Current

Leading the Tax Platform engineering group across Toronto, San Francisco & Chicago — building the tier-0 software platform to calculate, remit and report taxes on all orders & sales across all verticals, product lines and regions around the world

Software Engineering Manager III

2022 - 2023

Led the engineering group (within AWS Payments) owning customer payment preferences (including payment profiles), payment communications/notifications, payment policy/rules and special payment programs/offerings (like Advance Pay).

Co-Founder

2018 - 2022

Software Engineer, Deep Learning

2017 - 2018

• Developed the smart parking detection system from scratch by training deep neural networks to detect and identify vehicles on 360 degree cameras as part of the NVIDIA DeepStream team (owning NVIDIA Metropolis AI City)

Software Developer, ML & Computer Vision

2017 - 2017

• Co-invented new technology for 3D object detection/localization using deep neural networks with IBM Research -- USPTO patent granted on April 2023, filed March 2018 (titled "3D Object Localization for Obstacle Avoidance Using One-Shot Convolutional Neural Network") • Developed custom computer vision solutions using deep learning and other algorithms for clients under the Watson IoT practice; deployed solutions on the cloud and on the edge (embedded system)

Teaching Assistant

2016 - 2016

• Course: CPSC 210 - Software Construction (OOP using Java, JUnit testing, Android app dev and various design patterns)

Full Stack Developer

2016 - 2016

• Developed, tested and improved the back end REST JSONAPI using Golang • Developed the website using Coffeescript and AngularJS (and HTML/CSS) • Developed the hybrid mobile app using Appgyver and AngularJS • Contributed to the developer documentation for the public API

Research Assistant

2015 - 2016

• Worked on the R&D of Texada • Built a new web app for Texada from scratch using AngularJS: http://bestchai.bitbucket.org/texada/ • Wrote both end-to-end and unit tests for the AngularJS app • Improved the core Texada tool using C++ and studied the mining algorithms used

Software Developer Intern

2015 - 2015

• Worked on a Windows application that syncs local folders with the Microsoft Azure Cloud using C# • Helped promote and teach Microsoft's dev and cloud technologies, particularly Microsoft Azure

Co-founder & CEO

2014 - 2015

• Co-founded Incogmito, an anonymous social networking application synced with Facebook • Ran the company as CEO, raised angel investment and led the team to the finals of Bangladesh Startup Cup 2014-15 • Developed the prototype back end from scratch using PHP (a custom MVC framework) • Developed the prototype mobile app using Cordova for iOS and Android