Most people call me Tasin.

I'm KM Khalid Saifullah. I build things I've watched people quietly route around.

The longer version: I was answering tickets on the help desk at The College of Wooster, and learned that the licensed platform everyone was supposedly using had been slowly replaced by a patchwork of Slack threads and spreadsheets. So I interviewed 38 of the people living with it, built a replacement over a weekend, and pitched it to the four divisional directors. 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.

These days I spend less time adding features to AtlasDesk and more time running it. There are four engineers on it now, and most of what I do is review, decide, and make the boring parts mechanical — the lint rule that rejects a query pattern before it breaks the other database, the migration runner that counts rows before and after, the test that fails when a permission check goes missing. Shipping was the easy half.

Currently

• Leading the four college engineers who maintain AtlasDesk.
• Building an on-call agent for the platform, and the evaluation suite that decides whether it is allowed to ship.
• Writing up how my projects were built, from the product side and the engineering side.