About
Hi, I’m Hassan.
Cofounder and CIO at Entropy Labs, based in Lahore. I run product and engineering for a team of about a dozen, across Obelisk, October and client work.
A note from Hassan
I'm Hassan. I run product and engineering at Entropy Labs, a team of about a dozen building Obelisk, October and software for clients. The title on the door says CIO. Most days that means deciding what we build next, then staying close enough to the code to know whether the plan survives contact with it.
The work I like best is the plumbing: the stock count that has to stay right when two cashiers sell the last item at once, the tenant boundary nobody should be able to cross, the agent that needs a hard stop before it spends someone's budget. I've been doing some version of that since university, when client work for retail shops turned into Polaris and taught me that the edge cases are the product.
Outside work I send fixes to the open-source tools I use. That's 188 merged pull requests so far, mostly in kitty, calibre, libtorrent, Fallow and pyscn. I also taught university labs at FAST-NUCES for a few years, and I still think the fastest way to understand a system is to break it and then explain why it broke.
For the record, Entropy Labs won Ignite's acceleration round, had financing approved under Accelerate Prosperity, and exhibited at GITEX 2025 and LEAP 2026.
The road so far
Where the hours went.
2025Jun 2025 to Present
Cofounder and CIO, Entropy Labs
Product and engineering for a team of about a dozen. Roadmap, architecture and delivery across Obelisk (AI marketing), October (creator campaigns) and client work. The company won Ignite's acceleration round, had financing approved under Accelerate Prosperity, and exhibited at GITEX 2025 and LEAP 2026.
2024Sep 2024 to Jun 2025
Technical Product Engineering Lead, Entropy Labs
Workflow automation that cut a two-hour manual onboarding flow to 25 minutes. AI document processing, streaming Django and Vue apps, and pulling services out of a monolith without breaking the product.
2023Aug 2023 to Sep 2024
Senior Software Engineer, Entropy Labs
FastAPI and Django services under real traffic: query work, caching, and reporting paths fast enough that people trusted them. One reporting endpoint went from 750 ms to 230 ms.
2026Mar 2026 to Present
Engineering for a YC-backed insurance startup, Contract
Internal operations tooling: admin APIs, reporting, and diagnostics for the team running the platform day to day.
20202020 to Present
Founder, Commit Software Solutions
Client software for businesses that run on it daily. Polaris, a retail operations platform, came out of here and is still in use in retail shops.
Before 2024, mostly alongside university: AI engineering at WebNoodle (LangChain document pipelines), a backend internship at Arrivy (Flask, BigQuery, GCP), and teaching assistant work at FAST-NUCES.
For the record
Recognition for Entropy Labs, the company. The credit is shared with the whole team.
- Ignite acceleration round winner
- Financing approved under Accelerate Prosperity
- Exhibited at GITEX Global 2025
- Exhibited at LEAP 2026
Things I care about
The plumbing
The stock count that has to stay right when two cashiers sell the last item at once, and the tenant boundary nobody should be able to cross.
Edge cases
Client work for retail shops turned into Polaris and taught me that the edge cases are the product.
Breaking things on purpose
The fastest way to understand a system is to break it and then explain why it broke.
How I teach
Start from a system that can break, and talk through the tradeoffs, because the textbook answer is usually one of several.
Teaching
2024 to 2025
Lab Instructor, FAST-NUCES
Operating Systems, Software Construction and Development, and Web Engineering labs.
2022 to 2024
Teaching Assistant, FAST-NUCES
Software Engineering, Mobile Development, Information Security and Software Project Management.
Education
Started 2024, on hold
MS Computer Science, FAST-NUCES, Lahore
2020 to 2024
BS Software Engineering, FAST-NUCES, Lahore
Dean's List, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024