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Mohammed Tahir

I build AI products from zero to users — end to end.

a product I built & sold alone
1 Exita product I built & sold alonePortflix · 2024
shipping products
7+ yrsshipping productssince 2019
products taken to users
5products taken to usersengineering · AI · growth
managed ads spent
₹60Mmanaged ads spentperformance marketing · growth

Seven years shipping products across engineering, AI and growth. I own things end to end, first commit to first paying customer. Built my last product alone and sold it.

01Skills

What I do

01

Engineering

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • React
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Python
  • Flask
  • TailwindCSS
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Git
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Vercel
02

AI & Data

  • Vercel AI SDK
  • LangChain
  • PyTorch
  • Transformers
  • scikit-learn
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Matplotlib
  • Jupyter
  • Web Scraping
03

Growth

  • Performance Marketing
  • SEO
  • PPC
  • Email Marketing
  • Product Marketing
  • CRO & Retention
  • GA4
  • GTM
  • Looker Studio
02Selected Work

Selected work

Built, shipped and mostly owned end to end. The rest of the code lives on GitHub at @portflix-io.

01FounderBuilding

Connectin

Your network already contains someone who solved the problem you're stuck on. Connectin reads what you're working on and finds them.

In progress
since Jan 2025
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • LLM agents
  • Graph retrieval
012025—

Connectin

BuildingTypeScript · Next.js
02FounderSold

Portflix

Résumé in, live personal site out, with an AI that answered visitors from your own history. Built alone, sold in six months.

Sold
acquired in 2024
6 mo
idea to exit
1
person on the team
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • TailwindCSS
  • Python
  • LLM
022024

Portflix

SoldTypeScript · Next.js
03Designer & engineerShipped

Drlink

One link carrying a doctor's credentials, practice and contact, replacing the directory listings they don't control.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • TailwindCSS
032025

Drlink

ShippedNext.js · TypeScript
04Designer & engineerShipped

Ex10sion

Describe a browser behaviour, get back a working Chrome extension: manifest, permissions and content scripts included.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Vercel AI SDK
042025

Ex10sion

ShippedTypeScript · Next.js
03Experience

Experience

Jan 2025Present

FounderConnectin

Building an AI layer over the professional graph: it reads what you're working on and finds the person in your network who has already solved it. I own the product direction, the retrieval architecture and the model work.

  • LLM Agents
  • Retrieval
  • Next.js
  • Product

Jun 2026Present

Performance Marketing & Web Development LeadThe Ad Affair

Lead both sides of client delivery: the paid acquisition that buys the traffic and the sites that have to convert it. Owning the ad account and the build at once removes the usual argument about whose number it is.

  • Performance Marketing
  • Web Development
  • CRO
  • Analytics

Jul 2024Dec 2024

FounderPortflix

Built an AI product alone and sold it inside six months. Every call was mine: the document-parsing pipeline that turned arbitrary PDFs into typed data, the chatbot grounded on it, the pricing, the launch. Read the market's shape early enough to take an exit instead of grinding a business with structurally bad retention.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Python
  • LLM
  • Product

Apr 2024Present

DeveloperEmailblink

A vendor quote came in higher than the campaign was worth, so I built the sender instead, 92% cheaper on AWS SES. Turned the script into resumable, rate-limited, self-hostable infrastructure and open-sourced it.

  • Python
  • Flask
  • AWS SES
  • SMTP
  • Pandas

Sep 2022Apr 2024

Performance Marketing ExecutiveCloudThat

Ran paid acquisition across seven platforms with budget accountability on each. Learned to kill what doesn't return, still the most useful product instinct I have.

  • Performance Marketing
  • Google Ads
  • Facebook Ads
  • LinkedIn Ads
  • Bing Ads
  • Quora Ads
  • Twitter Ads

Mar 2021Sep 2022

Digital Marketing EngineerPROLIM Global Corporation

Built the landing pages, then owned the traffic that hit them. First role where I was accountable for both the code and the number it produced, which is where I stopped treating them as separate jobs.

  • Landing Pages
  • SEO
  • PPC
  • Email Marketing
  • Content

Aug 2020Feb 2021

Online InstructorSelf-employed

Taught Python and its applications online. Explaining a system to someone who has never seen it is still the fastest way I know to find out whether I actually understand it.

  • Python
  • Flask
  • NumPy
  • Pandas
  • scikit-learn
  • OpenCV

20192021

FounderDigiholix

Ran a web development and marketing agency on weekends. Sold the work, built the work, and carried the P&L. The first time I owned a business end to end rather than a task inside one.

  • WordPress
  • Performance Marketing
  • Sales
  • SEO
  • Demand Gen
  • Python

Education

2019
BSc, Computer Science · RNS College, BelagaviDropped out after 7 months and 3 days.
2016 — 2019
PUC (Science) · Gogte College64% aggregate
— 2016
SSLC · MLES School84% aggregate
04Now

Now

Updated 17 Aug 2026

Building

Connectin. Your network already contains someone who has solved the problem you're stuck on. Connectin reads what you're working on and finds them. Most of the work is retrieval and ranking, not chat.

Looking for

A founding-engineer seat at a company early enough that the product is still an argument rather than a roadmap.

06Contact

If you’re building something early enough to be hard, write to me.

tahir.dm99@gmail.com
Based in
Belagavi, Karnataka, India
Résumé
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Currently open to

  • Founding Engineer
  • Early Software Engineer
  • Product Engineer
  • AI Engineer
  • Forward Deployed Engineer

Remote or in-office. Happiest at the stage where the product is still an argument rather than a roadmap.