Muhammad Hassan Raza
Cofounder and CIO, Entropy Labs ยท Lahore, Pakistan
I run product and engineering for a team of about a dozen, across Obelisk, October and client work. I build backend and AI systems where correctness, latency and failure handling matter, and I've had 170 pull requests merged into open-source projects including kitty, calibre, libtorrent and Docling.
Experience
Cofounder and CIOEntropy Labs
Jun 2025 to Present
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.
Technical Product Engineering LeadEntropy Labs
Sep 2024 to Jun 2025
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.
Senior Software EngineerEntropy Labs
Aug 2023 to Sep 2024
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.
Engineering for a YC-backed insurance startupContract
Mar 2026 to Present
Internal operations tooling: admin APIs, reporting, and diagnostics for the team running the platform day to day.
FounderCommit Software Solutions
2020 to Present
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.
Open source
170 merged pull requests across 13 projects since 2026: fallow (33), pyscn (31), libtorrent (22), calibre (22), kitty (18), Mole (17), docling (10), qBittorrent (6).
Teaching
Lab InstructorFAST-NUCES
2024 to 2025
Operating Systems, Software Construction and Development, and Web Engineering labs.
Teaching AssistantFAST-NUCES
2022 to 2024
Software Engineering, Mobile Development, Information Security and Software Project Management.
Education
MS Computer ScienceFAST-NUCES, Lahore
Started 2024, on hold
BS Software EngineeringFAST-NUCES, Lahore
2020 to 2024
Dean's List, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024
Skills
- Backend
- Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Go
- AI systems
- LangGraph, LangChain, RAG pipelines, Agent evaluation, Vertex AI, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
- Frontend
- Vue, Nuxt, React, Next.js, TypeScript
- Infrastructure
- GCP, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions
Awards
- 3rd place, NaSCon '22 Code Studio
- 4th place, NaSCon '23 UI/UX competition