Taus Noor

Head of Engineering, Finance, Tax & Reporting

2023

Leading the Finance, Tax & Reporting org (~30 engineers + HIRING!) across San Francisco, Toronto & Chicago — building a world-class financial experience for merchants across all business lines, verticals and regions on DoorDash. 🚀 We own tier-0 & tier-1 services powering the complete financial journey of merchants on DoorDash — from financial onboarding/KYC to merchant pricing, payouts, sales tax calculation/remittance on every transaction, various financial/tax integrations and all financial/sales/tax reporting for merchants

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

- NVIDIA DeepStream team owning Metropolis / AI City - Developed the smart parking detection system from scratch by training deep neural networks to detect and identify vehicles on 360 degree cameras

Software Developer, ML & Computer Vision

2017 - 2017

• Co-invented obstacle avoidance AI using 3D object detection/localization via 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

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