Talha Basit's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

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🎓 Education

Talha Basit holds a BS Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Basit also has a Minor Japanese Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Basit's education highlight includes her work experience as a software engineer with the company Microsoft. Basit is currently a software engineer at Aon Risk Solutions. Basit's work experience totaled over 2 years at Aon Risk Solutions. Basit is currently in the process of acquiring a Master's degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Phoenix. Basit is also a recent graduate of the international graduate program at Johns Hopkins University's London School of Economics. Basit is experienced in programming, data analysis, and instructional design. Basit is currently working on a graduate level course in software engineering offered by the University of Phoenix.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Basit is a leader, advisor and investor with expertise leading teams for companies from early stage start-ups to large scale organizations in Silicon Valley and Chicago. Most recently exited divvyDOSE to United Health Group. Basit is currently a Official Member at Forbes Technology Council. Solutions Consultant/Mobile Software Architect at Absolute Software from July 2011 to March 2013 (1 year 9 months) in Greater Chicago Area. Client Technology Manager at Chicago Public Schools from 2007 to 2011 (4 years) in Greater Chicago Area. VP Business Development at Branchfire from March 2013 to October 2013 (8 months) in Chicago. Report directly to the CEO. Diversified perpetual revenue consumer product into two new revenue streams with subscription pricing. Oversaw all B2B Sales. Principal and CTO at SauntiSoft Inc. from 2004 to 2007 (3 years) in San Francisco Bay Area. Founder of software consulting firm. Clients included Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo and Rockwell Systems. Software Engineering Manager at SupportSoft, Inc. from 2002 to 2004 (2 years) in Redwood City, CA. Led cross platform team of in order to develop Mac OS software for ISP enrollment. Ported over Windows software to be cross platform Mac OS X Software. Senior Software Engineer at Apple Inc. from 2000 to 2001 (1 year) in Cupertino, CA. Lead developer on first Cocoa port of iMovie from OS 9 to OS X. Senior Software Engineer at Cinebase from 1997 to 2000 (3 years) in Redwood City. Worked on digital media management software. Wrote cross platform framework, including Mac OS software, Java software and led team of other developers. Software Engineer at Apple Inc. from 1995 to 1997 (2 years) inCupertino, CA. Worked on first Apple Set top box, Pippin. Sold only in Japan. Advisor To The Board at Cuemby in Florida, United States. Cuemby provides the next generation Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technology with professional expertise to manage your applications and infrastructure. CTO at Dose from January 2015 to March 2017 (2 years 3 months) in Chicago. Responsible for setting technology and architecture direction for entire company. Instrumental in aiding company in securing 25 million Series B Funding. Provide leadership, mentoring and direction for two Full Stack, Data Science, Mobile, DevOps and Design/UX teams. Responsible for all hiring and growth of team and grew it 5x in 18 months to 36. VP Product at Branchfire from November 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 2 months) in Greater Chicago Area. Led all product and engineering efforts for the company’s flagship product. Three engineering teams, QA and Product managers all reported to me. Spearheaded growth of product from iOS only to iOS, Android and web application. Principal at SpiralDot LLC from December 2010 to March 2013 (2 years 4 months) in Greater Chicago Area. SpiralDot was mobile software company consultancy working on developing great iOS mobile apps and back-end cloud infrastructure focusing on healthcare and education. Responsible for leading development team, UI/UX and QA. Chief Technology Officer at divvyDOSE in Greater Chicago