Fahad Zaidi

CEO

Calgary, Alberta, Canada14 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led AI-first development team at Neo Financial.
Doubled engineering team size through strategic hiring.
Delivered multiple high-impact financial products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in software development and project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementSoftware DevelopmentBusiness AnalysisData AnalysisData Engineering

Other Skills

AI-first developmentLifecycle and Marketing OperationsHiringOnboardingTeam leadershipHigh-Interest Savings AccountPayment infrastructureBanking partnershipsLending managementCollections platformIT SolutionsDigital marketing strategiesImplementation activitiesData acquisitionCustomer journey

Experience

Neo financial

3 roles

Director, Lifecycle and Marketing Operations

Feb 2026 – Present · 1 mo · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Leading an AI-first development team that is building cutting edge technology to scale our Lifecycle and Marketing Operations capabilities as we scale to our north star faster and faster!

AI-first developmentLifecycle and Marketing OperationsProject ManagementSoftware Development

Director, Office of the CTO

Aug 2025 – Feb 2026 · 6 mos · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Supported our Engineering org by leading all hiring and onboarding related initiatives to successfully grow our Engineering team by 2x.

HiringOnboardingProject ManagementBusiness Analysis

Director, Software Development

Sep 2022 – Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Through this role, I've had the chance to lead and coach some of the most talented Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, & Developers in the industry.
My teams at Neo Financial have delivered initiatives that have led to Neo's exponential growth such as the High-Interest Savings Account, underlying Payment infrastructure & banking partnerships, Lending & credit line management, in-house collections platform, and delivered strategic commercial & banking partnerships.
Neo Financial is Canada's and Calgary's fastest-growing startup ever. Neo has been named the top startup in Canada by LinkedIn 2 years in a row, the fastest-growing company in Canada by the Globe and Mail, and the fastest-growing technology company in Canada by Deloitte.

Team leadershipHigh-Interest Savings AccountPayment infrastructureBanking partnershipsLending managementCollections platform+2

Toptal

Senior Business Analyst

Dec 2021 – Aug 2022 · 8 mos · Canada

Advised CEO on digital organic and paid marketing strategies, using data, which led to revenue growth year-over-year ($200m to $300+m per year).

Digital marketing strategiesData analysisBusiness AnalysisData Analysis

Quorso

4 roles

Head of PMO

May 2021 – Nov 2021 · 6 mos

Responsible for execution of Quorso implementation activities across the entire Quorso customer portfolio.

Implementation activitiesProject ManagementBusiness Analysis

Lead Data Scientist

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsible for working closely with Quorso clients to ensure all requirements around data acquisition, ingestion, and uploads are met for the end-to-end customer journey (pre-sale to enterprise-wide rollout).

Data acquisitionCustomer journeyData AnalysisSoftware Development