About

I'm K.M. Khalid Saifullah. Most people call me Tasin.

I build things I've watched people quietly route around. The longer version: I spent a year as an IT Specialist at The College of Wooster, learned that the licensed platform everyone was supposedly using had been slowly replaced by a patchwork of Slack threads and spreadsheets, and eventually asked if I could replace it properly. They said yes. That became AtlasDesk.

Before the platform work, there was research — multi-agent coordination in autonomous vehicle routing, specifically the failure mode where vehicles talking to each other made traffic worse instead of better. I proposed a memory framework that resolved it and presented the work at NCUR. It's the kind of problem that taught me to trust instrumentation more than intuition.

My interests sit at the seam between product thinking and systems design. I like problems that have been sitting in plain sight because the people living with them stopped noticing. I like shipping the thing, not writing about shipping the thing. I work fast with AI tools, and I'm stubborn about understanding what the code actually does before it reaches production.

Currently I'm finishing T.A.R.S, a self-hosted assistant running on two mini PCs in my apartment. It does useful things. It will, over the next few weeks, do more of them.