Essam Sleiman

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States4 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Founder of Canvas AI, driving innovation in AI.
Developed Twitch's first video foundation model.
Built ML-Infra Service for AWS IVS.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS AI innovator with a strong focus on machine learning and video processing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (ai)Deep Learning

Other Skills

Python (Programming Language)Natural Language Processing (NLP)Video ProcessingSoftware DevelopmentComputer VisionImage ProcessingPyTorchApplied Machine LearningReact.jsNode.jsJavaScriptMongoDBFull-Stack DevelopmentBackendGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)

About

Building coding agents for gtm engineering Feel free to reach out at essam@canvas.inc!

Experience

Canvas ai (yc f24)

Founder

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Claude code for gtm engineering

Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Python (Programming Language)

Harvard university

AI Researcher

Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr

Deep Learning, NLP

Deep LearningNatural Language Processing (NLP)

Twitch

Research Engineer

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · San Francisco, CA

Designed and trained first Twitch stream video foundation model. Also developed continual learning framework for live video training.

Deep LearningVideo Processing

Komma

Co-Founder/CTO

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

Simplifying the way sales representatives schedule meetings. Fun first startup experience. Learned a ton

Codelab

Co-Founder/President

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

Student-run software development consultancy for Silicon Valley tech companies. Working with companies like Snapchat and Reddit.
Founded, defined the vision, and led CodeLab as first President. Org has grown to 150+ members today.