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MOHAMMED FAYAZ SALIM SOFTWARE ENGINEER

I like building
things.

I’m a founding engineer at QwikBuild / Snowmountain.ai. I build AI platforms and the systems that take them into production.

Selected work
CURRENTLY

Founding Engineer at QwikBuild / Snowmountain.ai

Full experience
01 / PROJECTS

Selected work

AI platforms, browser automation,
and enterprise software.

CURRENT WORK · AI PLATFORMS

QwikBuild

The production platform behind QwikBuild.

I build the production platform around our multi-agent coding system: the authentication, deployment, billing, and infrastructure that help AI-generated applications become usable products.

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PLATFORM ENGINEERING 2023—PRESENT / SNOWMOUNTAIN.AI
02
AI DILIGENCE

Capital

A workspace for investors and founders to evaluate pitch decks and investment opportunities.

Configurable agents, multi-document analysis, private knowledge vaults, deep research, resumable streamed outputs, and structured investment reports.

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03
BANKING & RISK

Forecast360

Turning loan portfolios, models, and scenarios into something people can explore.

Built the platform for configuring risk models, comparing peer banks, visualizing forecasts, and generating reports.

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04
BROWSER AUTOMATION

Autonomous Bidding Agent

An agent working against the clock—and a changing web page.

Chrome and Puppeteer-based bidding workflows with queued-job prioritization, dynamic navigation, bid submission, and recovery from session expiry and timeouts.

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05
ENTERPRISE WORKFLOWS

Hemkund

Making purchase-order operations work across teams and businesses.

A multi-tenant platform covering document intake, review and approvals, vendor and retailer synchronization, dashboards, notifications, and customer-specific workflows.

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02 / BACKGROUND

The story
so far.

A few moments that shaped
how I think and what I build.

The early years

Academics, quizzing, and athletics.

School quizzing, a nationwide spelling bee final 100, and athletics: 100m, 200m, and the 4×100m relay.

Academic & extracurricular
A little more

Second-highest scorer in internal exams.

University

Learning how to think through a problem.

Studied Computer Science at NIT Calicut. Competitive programming led to representing the institute at the 2018–19 ICPC regionals.

NIT Calicut · ICPC regionals
A little more

Took graduate-level mathematics courses, earned the sole top grade in a Data Structures & Algorithms course, and applied convolutional neural networks to cervical cancer detection from pap smear images for my capstone.

2019

A first look at software in industry.

A summer at Goldman Sachs, contributing to the MOSAIC platform and building PDF generation from dynamic tables.

Goldman Sachs · Summer Analyst
2020—2023

Products, rewrites, and everything between.

Three years at Clear across web and desktop applications. Built new products, a custom enterprise data table, and microfrontends spanning more than 30 reports.

Clear · Software Engineer I → II
2023—now

From the first hire to products in production.

Joined Snowmountain.ai at its inception. Today, I own the production platform around QwikBuild’s multi-agent coding system, with earlier work across AI diligence, banking risk, browser agents, and enterprise workflows.

QwikBuild / Snowmountain.ai · Founding Engineer
03 / PERSONAL INTERESTS

Outside work

Competitive programming, chess,
and strength training.

01 / COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMING2017—18

Thinking against
the clock.

2076peak CodeChef rating · 5★
CodeChef rating progression from about 1200 to a peak of 2076 between 2016 and 2018

From practice problems to representing NIT Calicut at the 2018–19 ICPC regionals.

The CodeChef record
02 / BULLET CHESS2021

One minute.
A lot of decisions.

~1940peak Lichess bullet rating
Lichess bullet rating rising from about 1680 to about 1940 between March and June 2021

Three months of regular play during the pandemic, from March to June 2021.

The Lichess record
03 / STRENGTH & NUTRITION2023

Showing up.
Keeping track.

73 → 63kilograms · six months

Weight (kg)

1 / 3

Weight declining from 73 to 63 kilograms, March to August 2023

A focused cut, with weight and body fat tracked weekly from March to August.

A note on the measurements

Body fat readings came from a bioimpedance scale, which recorded 22% to 18%. These are scale estimates, not precise measurements.

ALSO, AWAY FROM A SCREEN Indoor climbing Open water scuba
04 / KEEP IN TOUCH

Get in
touch.

Let’s talk