Zeeshan (Zee) Hamid

VP of Engineering at Sensei Labs

Zeeshan (Zee) Hamid has a diverse work experience spanning multiple companies and roles.

Zeeshan (Zee) is currently the VP of Engineering at Sensei Labs, a position they started in February 2023.

Prior to that, they were an Engineering Leader at DoorDash, where they served as the Toronto site leader and led the International Expansion. Unfortunately, they were part of the layoffs that impacted 1250 employees.

From 2019 to 2022, Zeeshan served as a Board Member at Halton Healthcare.

In 2020 to 2021, they were the Chief Technology Officer at Swyft, a last-mile marketplace. Zeeshan (Zee) successfully took the company from seed to a massive series-A, setting up an engineering organization with multiple high-performing teams.

In 2019 and 2020, Zeeshan was the Founder & CEO (off year) at CampaignRaven.

Before that, from 2014 to 2019, they were a Software Development Manager at Amazon. Zeeshan (Zee) led the Delivery Execution group in Amazon's Last Mile business, overseeing the movement of billions of packages and tracking hundreds of thousands of drivers. Zeeshan (Zee) also played a key role in scaling the business from a startup team within Amazon to one of the largest shippers in the world. Additionally, they interviewed many hundreds of candidates as a Bar Raiser and Hiring Manager.

From 2012 to 2014, Zeeshan held the position of CTO (off year) at Budzee.

At Microsoft, Zeeshan started their career as a Software Development Engineer in 2002. Zeeshan (Zee) was the main architect of PowerPoint Mobile and a key developer of Word Mobile. Due to their exceptional performance, they were promoted to a manager within just 2.5 years out of university. Zeeshan (Zee) further rose to the positions of Software Development Lead and Senior Manager during their tenure at Microsoft, which lasted until 2012.

Zeeshan (Zee) Hamid pursued their Bachelor of Mathematics degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo between 1997 and 2002. In addition to their formal education, they also participated in internships from 1998 to 2001. Further details regarding the internships, including the school names, degree name, and field of study, were not provided.

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  • VP of Engineering

    February, 2023 - present