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A proximity social network to help students meet in person. Shipped to the App Store; content marketing did hundreds of thousands of views and 2,000 installs. It taught me that retention beats virality.
Haris Malik
SWE @ Tesla · prev. K-Scale (YC W24), Dayforce, TD · Pearson Scholar, U of T
Founder and software engineer. I started a social network that gets students to meet in person instead of scrolling, taught humanoid robots to see and hold a conversation, and write embedded software for Tesla's grid-scale batteries.
Now building Vexo — the first health ring that listens. See the ring
01Work
Work
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Vexo
Founder — building the first health ring that listens: a smart ring with a microphone. Tap it and speak to log meals, workouts, meds, and moods against your vitals. Local-first; your data lives on your phone.
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Tesla
Embedded Linux applications for Tesla's EnergyOS Megapack platform: connectivity management, self-tests, production tooling, and hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure.
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K-Scale Labs YC W24
- Vision-based depth estimation: YOLOv11 with a pinhole camera model, 12 cm median error at 4 m.
- Real-time SAM2 segmentation at 8–10 FPS.
- Voice interaction loop at 180 ms via token streaming — Whisper → GPT-4 → ElevenLabs.
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Dayforce
Performance engineering on core APIs — C# and Kafka.
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TD
Backend and frontend engineering.
02Education
Education and awards
University of Toronto — Honours BSc, Computer Science.
- Lester B. Pearson International Scholarship — full ride, roughly 37 awarded worldwide per year. Featured by Global Scholarships
- Dean's List, Computer Science.
- Cambridge A-Levels: 7 As. O-Levels: 8 As.
- Academic Achievement Award, Oxbridge Academic Programs.
03Research
Research
Co-author, “Improving Synthesizability Prediction of TiZrNb-Based High Entropy Alloys using Bayesian Model and Advanced Input Feature Analysis.” Poster at MRS Fall 2024. Bayesian optimization, NSGA-II, positive-unlabeled learning.
04Projects
Projects
Knight
An autonomous drone that follows people walking alone at night — computer vision and path planning, with live video and location streamed to trusted contacts. A mobile eye in the sky.
SafeSpot
Camera-based fall detection: ordinary phones and IP cameras plus computer vision detect falls and alert caregivers in seconds. Won awards at uOttaHack, U of T Shark Tank, and the U of T Pitch Competition.
Russel HomeBot
An autonomous home robot on a Jetson Orin Nano: voice commands, depth-camera navigation on ROS2, stair-climbing whegs, and item fetching.
Wild Knight
An autonomous drone delivering first-aid supplies to hikers in the Swiss mountains.
Hand exoskeleton for piano training
A 3D-printed, servo-actuated hand exoskeleton that drives each finger at programmable tempos — web app, Flask backend, and a MIDI interpreter.
More on GitHub
- voltage-car-diagnostics CAN-bus anomaly detection with a PyTorch LSTM autoencoder behind a FastAPI service.
- zbot-conversation Voice interaction pipeline for K-Scale's Z-Bot humanoid.
- imu_bmi088 Embedded Rust driver for the Bosch BMI088 IMU.
- mfcc-implementation MFCC audio feature extraction written in C.
- vit-mnist Vision Transformer, CNN, and MLP built and compared on MNIST.
- Super-Panda 2D side-scroller written entirely in assembly.
More builds
05Teams
University teams
- Team lead, aUToronto — U of T's championship self-driving team (SAE AutoDrive Challenge, placed first).
- Formula SAE Electric — student-built electric race car. Team member.