Samee Zahid

Optimism is, in the first instance, a way of explaining failure, not prophesying success


What do I do?

I'm currently exploring and building after directing the Intelligence & ML org at Chipper Cash, where I was engineer #5 at Africa's leading fintech.

There, I pioneered Chipper ID: a full-stack KYC suite built on bare metal for uniquely African anti-fraud challenges, as well as productionizing the first LLM-backed sanctions screening tool. I built out my teams under a full-stack ML philosophy.

Before that, I worked on the Geo Search Ranking team at Google where I drove applied ML projects hitting billions of users across Search, Maps, and Assistant.

Where am I from?

I've lived and traveled throughout the world.