250,000+ users
A verified-human rewards marketplace with a documented peak of 201,637 token transactions in one day.
Forward Deployed Engineer · Ottawa, Canada
From ambiguous problem
to deployed system.
I'm Rahim Iqbal, a Forward Deployed Engineer who works between customers, product, and engineering. I turn unclear operating needs into systems that can be shipped, tested, and improved—from consumer products and ecommerce workflows to robotics and factory automation.
- Current
- Forward Deployed Engineer at Rolu Labs
- Deployment range
- AI products, robotics, commerce, and factory systems
- Based in
- Ottawa, Canada
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What this has looked like
At Rolu Labs, I work from client discovery through launch and iteration. At Amazon Robotics and Tesla, I worked around production, deployment, and field constraints. Across those settings, the job has been to understand what is actually blocking an outcome and organize the technical work needed to change it.
- Spend time where the system is being used.
- Translate a business or operational constraint into a buildable scope.
- Move between customer conversations, product decisions, and technical details.
- Own the loop through launch, feedback, and the next iteration.
02
Evidence of deployed outcomes
$3M annual savings
A documented Tesla supply-chain automation vision project during the Model Y launch.
Three robotics launches
Launch and implementation work across Amazon Robotics facilities YOW3, YHM1, and DET3.
03
Experience
Rolu Labs
Forward Deployed Engineer
- Worked directly from client problems through market research, requirements, product design, engineering coordination, launch, and iteration.
- Co-built products from their early stages that have collectively been used by more than one million people.
- Helped build a verified-human rewards marketplace that reached 250,000+ users and recorded a peak of 201,637 token transactions in one day.
- Shaped products spanning Unity 3D rewarded advertising, Shopify commerce systems, and a World ID-enabled social network.
Amazon
Product Manager (Web3) · Operations Manager I
- Planned and executed launch operations for Amazon Robotics facilities, including YOW3, YHM1, and DET3.
- Worked with cross-functional teams to prioritize product features and manage their development from concept through launch.
- Led implementations with engineering to improve hardware components of Amazon Robotics systems.
Tesla
Core Automation Vision PM Intern
- Launched a supply-chain automation vision project documented at $3M in annual savings.
- Implemented vision quality-inspection systems on the production line for the Model Y launch.
- Established a network-wide warehouse receiving system to reduce vendor inventory mismatches.
Voyager Labs
Startup Program Manager
- Established a team of engineers, physicists, and postdoctoral fellows for a quantum-computing project.
- Developed the project roadmap, milestones, deliverables, and investor reporting cadence.
WhiteWater West Industries
Mechanical Design Intern
- Worked across departments to replace a waterslide bolt-ordering process, documented at $80K in annual savings.
- Managed six student projects during a database migration.
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Selected technical work
Forward-deployed product systemsRolu Labs · client deployment case studyFactory vision under launch constraintsTesla · deployment case studyOpenAtomsReproducible AI-driven scienceKerrFormalizationMachine-checked spacetime geometryHardware Security AssertionsLLMs for missing security propertiesSelf-Evolving ARC ModelIterative self-improvement for reasoning
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Education and tools
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics · 2021
- Python
- C++
- SQL
- TensorFlow
- MATLAB
- Tableau
- Splunk
- SolidWorks
- Fusion 360
- Primavera P6