Haider Shawl

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Founder of Lumen, driving organic growth strategies.
Led engineering initiatives at Blaze AI, optimizing infrastructure.
Developed a successful Q&A bot, acquired by Blaze AI.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused technical leader with expertise in growth engineering and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Search Engine Optimization (seo)Data EngineeringGrowth EngineeringProduct DevelopmentFrontend Development

Other Skills

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)AWSPayments InfrastructureSocial ProspectingData EnrichmentData ScrapingCost OptimizationNLPReact NativeAWS AmplifyVersion ControlGitHubJavaTypeScriptDjango

About

I'm Haider, the Founder of Lumen. We help companies win customers from organic search across Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity etc. We’ve worked with fast-growing startups and enterprise teams, including partners like Mastercard, to help them adapt to how search and discovery are changing. We help teams in two ways: – For companies without the time or in-house expertise, we run organic growth end-to-end so founders and leaders can stay focused on the business – For companies with growth and content teams, we offer a self-serve product to track, understand, and improve AI and search visibility. Send me a DM and I’ll share more details. Agency: lumenrank.com Product: lumenuse.com

Experience

4 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

2 mos

Current Experience

Entrepreneurs first

Entrepreneur in Residence

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Lumen ai

Founder

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos

We help you win customers from Google, ChatGPT, Gemini etc.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Blaze ai

Founding Software Engineer

Feb 2023 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Backed by YC, Lightspeed
Spearheaded various product, data, and growth engineering initiatives
Architected and maintained the payments infrastructure of the product handling both recurring and non recurring purchases
Lead E2E development of key features like Twitter and LinkedIn social prospecting, Twitter Ads campaigns, Farcaster scheduling, Curated segments and AI Support bot, all of which generated revenue for the company
Leveraged public Twitter and LinkedIn APIs to enable social prospecting, a feature with the highest usage on the product
Scraped various data sources to increase available social mappings from 100,000 to 1.1 million
Optimized AWS infrastructure and logging practices, reducing annual cloud costs by $20K while maintaining performance
Implemented user attribution, enhancing funnel analytics and executed multiple other high-impact growth experiments
Developed data enrichment pipelines for sales optimization

AWSData EngineeringGrowth EngineeringPayments InfrastructureSocial ProspectingData Enrichment

Fybr (uc berkeley)

Software Engineer

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Owned frontend development of FYBR app using React Native and implemented authentication and analytics using AWS Amplify
Contributed actively to technical and all-hands meetings
Awarded internship extension based on exceptional performance

React NativeAWS AmplifyFrontend Development

Q&a bot (acquired)

Founder

Jul 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

Developed a product which uses NLP to answer commonly asked questions in Discord communities while still in high school
Adopted by massive discord communities like Big Time which has over 300,000 members
Used by over 500 users with 20 paying users without any marketing efforts
Successfully negotiated acquisition by Blaze AI, joining as founding engineer post-acquisition