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OSMAN SIDDIQUE
> CTO @ Sciloop (YC F25) | MIT CS&E '26
$ ABOUT_ME
Technophile and proactive learner at MIT with excellent analytical skills. CTO at Sciloop, where my job is to make new things. Passionate about computational physics, ML applications in soft robotics, and building efficient distributed systems. I like strongly typed languages and nerdy C++ code.
SF / MIT
San Francisco & Cambridge
4.90 / 5.00
MIT CS&E
ML + Systems
Agents, distributed arch, robotics
Builder
Always exploring, always building
$ WORK_EXPERIENCE
CTO
Sciloop (YC F25)
Aug 2025 - Present // San Francisco, CA
My job is to make new things. Testing models in frontier STEM problems.
Software Development Intern
MIT CSAIL
May 2025 - Oct 2025 // Cambridge, MA
Porting Finch.jl to Python - bridging high-performance sparse computing to the Python ecosystem.
Software Developer Intern
KellisLab
Feb 2025 - May 2025 // Hybrid
UI/UX improvements and automation of repetitive workflows through AI-driven Agents using LangChain.
Research Intern
TUKL-NUST R&D Center
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 // Islamabad, Pakistan
Remote sensing research - AI-driven forest segmentation using the MajorTOM dataset.
$ SKILL_TREE
Python
95%
C / C++
90%
JavaScript
85%
TypeScript
80%
React
80%
PyTorch
85%
Docker
75%
MongoDB
70%
Blender
65%
Unity
60%
$ ls ~/PROJECTS
C → WASM
C++
Pong ▶ playable▶ play on PC
Console Pong written in plain C — compiled to WebAssembly and rendered live on a WebGL terminal, right here in the site. Click to boot the binary.. Open this site on a desktop to play it in the browser. Tap for the source ↗
* 1
Game Engine
OOP-based 2D game engine built from scratch in C++ as a 3-person team project.
JavaScript
2D Inverse Kinematics
Real-time 2D inverse kinematics solving servo-motor angles from target coordinates, with a live interactive demo.
Python
Looplets
From-scratch implementation of the Looplets language for representing and iterating over sparse tensors, based on the original research paper.
Python
LitFinder
Sciloop Labs — a modular agentic pipeline that searches, extracts, and ranks research papers from a natural-language query: Gemini-generated criteria, Semantic Scholar retrieval, and VoyageAI embeddings + reranking over a cached FAISS index.
* 1
Python
LLM From Scratch
Stanford CS336 — building a language model from the ground up: BPE tokenizer, word2vec, and training internals implemented from scratch.
Jupyter
Forest Segmentation Dataset
Research-grade pipeline preparing MajorTOM satellite imagery for self-supervised forest segmentation — distributed metadata processing and a streaming PyTorch dataset.
Python
ESMFold Protein Predictor
Deployed Streamlit app that predicts and visualizes 3D protein structures from a sequence using Meta's ESM-2 / ESMFold model.
$ EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Computer Science and Engineering
NUST - National University of Sciences & Technology
B.E. Computer Software Engineering
Certifications
Deep Learning Specialization (DeepLearning.AI) | ML Specialization (Stanford) | Responsive Web Design (freeCodeCamp)
$ CONTACT