# Uzair Hussain

**Forward Deployed Engineer | AI Systems · Enterprise Adoption · Regulated Environments**

Elmhurst, IL · [timekeepur.com](https://timekeepur.com) · [linkedin.com/in/uzairhussain](https://linkedin.com/in/uzairhussain) · [github.com/timekeepur](https://github.com/timekeepur) · [Book a call](https://cal.com/timekeepur/30min)

## Professional summary

Founder-engineer who embeds with customers, scopes messy problems, and ships high-reliability software in regulated and operationally constrained environments (healthcare, education, identity)—the software/ops analog of high-stakes production, not launch vehicles. Built domain-specific models in HIPAA/FERPA environments and scaled DistrictZero to 700+ enterprise medical users with measurable commercialization outcomes; earlier shipped consumer IoT to 1M+ activations and education products to 30,000+ pupils. Strong at rapid prototyping, regulated deployment, and converting field signal into retained enterprise revenue.

## Professional experience

## Forward Deployed Engineer, Timekeepur
**2026 – Present** · Elmhurst, IL

- Partner with early-stage founders across healthcare, robotics, materials science, insurance, fintech, and defense to design and deploy secure agentic systems focused on identity delegation and token-cost reduction. Daily workstation is Cursor; recorded Cursor / Opus / Grok sessions are listed on [Talks](https://timekeepur.com/videos.md). Public agent skills and Next.js/Vercel repos: [Open source](https://timekeepur.com/oss.md).
- Ship production apps on Next.js with the Vercel AI SDK and Vercel AI Gateway (this site, timekeepur.com, is hosted on Vercel).
- Built and operate PromptHaus, an agentic skills-evaluation platform delivering a mobile AI-literacy skills wallet for vocational and consumer learners plus enterprise skills-verification systems; supporting K-12 and higher-education AI literacy programs.
- Deploy local AI-literacy coaching programs with high-school students through fitness centers and after-school activities, applying both B2C consumer and B2B education deployment models.

## Founder & CEO, Product, DistrictZero
**2020 – 2026** · Elmhurst, IL

- Owned end-to-end AI engineering and deployment of a residency-preparedness mentorship system at Loyola University Medical School, including supervised pipelines, human-in-the-loop labeling, synthetic data, and production systems in HIPAA/FERPA environments.
- Commercialized the platform with the Department of Medical Education: grew a $10k pilot to $55k ARR with 110% net revenue retention, >90 NPS, 100% adoption across faculty, clinicians and students, and improved well-being in 86% of pilot groups.
- Built privacy-preserving delegated access controls and integrated with existing wellness and medical-education systems; passed Loyola IRB, received NSF seed-stage approval for the intervention agenda generator, and earned AAMC recognition as a top-4 use of AI in undergraduate medical education. Supported the account for 3+ years through successful handoff.
- Migrated the DistrictZero front-end from Create React App to Next.js in a week-long embed with Vercel: jump-off with Vercel leadership, then paired with CPO Tom Occhino through legacy errors, library refactors, DNS, and env vars to a production deploy. Upstreamed 12 gotcha rules from that work into the public cra-to-next-migration skill ([vercel-labs/migration-skills@a9bdb17](https://github.com/vercel-labs/migration-skills/commit/a9bdb175792cbb7cf816732790e8020d3c8e2370); 136→148 rules, Jan 2026).

## Product Manager, MetaClass
**2022 – 2023** · Tampa, FL (Remote)

- Directed end-to-end rebuild of a K-12 secure messaging platform with Google Innovators; enabled 10,000+ compliant interactions and onboarded 50+ educators across FL and NJ.

## Product Manager, Growth, Innit
**2017 – 2018** · Redwood City, CA

- Led 0-to-1 launch of an IoT food platform to 50K+ users with AI-driven personalization; partnered with Electrolux and BSH to integrate mobile+web into global smart kitchen ecosystems.

## Product Producer, Education, General Assembly (Acquired)
**2013 – 2015** · Los Angeles, CA

- Produced 25+ professional education programs across UX, marketing, and product, reaching 2,500+ learners in southern CA.

## Founder & CEO, Product, Cleu
**2011 – 2020** · San Francisco, CA

- Led 0-to-1 commercialization of a Top-10 iOS circadian habit platform to 1M+ IoT-enabled wake-ups.
- Established deep product integrations with Nest, Uber, BSH, CTA, and Philips Hue, embedding Cleu into early smart-home and mobility ecosystems.

## Product Sales Expert, Apple
**2009 – 2011** · Chicago, IL

- Selected as inaugural team member for the Lincoln Park Apple Retail flagship store, supporting technical sales expertise and customer adoption on the consumer and education retail floor.

## Skills

- **AI/ML:** LLM fine-tuning & evaluation, supervised/synthetic datasets, prompt engineering, applied NLP, multimodal analysis, Cursor, Vercel AI SDK/Gateway, agentic systems, identity delegation
- **Engineering:** AWS CDK, Serverless, Next.js, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Cursor, Swift/Objective-C, PostgreSQL, SwiftData, CloudKit
- **Customer & product:** Enterprise pilot ownership, regulated UX, go-to-market, stakeholder communication, Figma, Linear; SwiftUI for iOS/macOS/visionOS

## Education

- B.S. Biological Sciences | University of Illinois at Chicago | 2004 – 2008, 2019
- iOS Swift/Objective-C Programming | General Assembly | 2015 – 2016

## Languages and additional

- **Languages:** English (Native); Urdu (Native); Spanish (Professional); Italian (A2); Arabic (Read-only)
- **Volunteering:** High School CTE Mentor, Naperville Consolidated School District 203; AAMC Online Communities Contributor, AI in Academic Medicine

## Related agent documents

- [Ways of working](https://timekeepur.com/pricing.md)
- [Current learning (PromptHaus)](https://timekeepur.com/skills.md)
- [Open source](https://timekeepur.com/oss.md)
- [Full profile](https://timekeepur.com/main)