Taus Noor
Engineering Leader at DoorDash
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Engineering, Finance, Tax & Reporting
2023 - Current
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
DoorDash is a food delivery platform that connects customers with local and national businesses.
Raised $2,471,820,000.00 from Durable Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, T. Rowe Price and Fidelity.
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).
Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Co-Founder
2018 - 2022
Computer Vision AI - building state-of-the-art facial recognition and license plate recognition software
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
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
Raised $4,095,000,000.00 from ARPA-E and DARPA.
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)
IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.
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
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
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