Mahboob Imtiyaz

Building a much needed social financial application for investors who prefer structure over speculation — like mutual funds, but for crypto. Crypto has been an attractive investment capable of double to triple digit gains, but with the high learning curve and increased risks, many user's shy away from exchanges.
We seek to create a save alternative to crypto exchanges where investment decisions are made by established financial institutions that are experts in this game. All this will increasing financial literacy among out users with integrated AI to help decide on the right investment strategies. Giving users a high return and a safe investment app.

After more than a decade of building high-performing engineering teams and mentoring countless developers across hundreds of technologies, I founded Cohortea to help leading software and blockchain companies scale their developer communities with precision.

Cohortea specializes in community engineering and developer relations management — helping organizations amplify their technical influence, accelerate ecosystem adoption, and drive the only traction that truly matters: real applications and contracts deployed on their platforms.

Founded and led Labcritics over a decade ago, envisioning it as a comprehensive platform to track cutting-edge research tools, breakthroughs accelerating R&D, life science hackathons/researchathons, skill-enhancing technologies, automation, regulations and the growing ecosystem of DeSci and deeptech companies and services — now increasingly powered by AI scientists and innovators.

Built and led a multidisciplinary team of developers, designers, consultants, and advisors to develop a secure and scalable Web3 hybrid (on-chain/off-chain) RWA security tokenization platform and a chain-agnostic decentralized identity (SSI) solution. The platform uniquely implements Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) to minimize repetitive KYC processes prevalent across DeFi applications.
Extensively integrated AI-driven tools and workflows to accelerate development and ensure robust scalability. Conducted deep technical and regulatory research into the limitations of existing protocols and tokenization frameworks within the GCC, resulting in a fully compliant architecture for tokenizing both financial and non-financial assets such as real estate, art, and patents.

Building the Next-Gen Crypto Exchange for Security Tokens, currently in Stealth mode.. Incorporated into Fidociary..

Building a streamlined Accounting and Bookkeeping platform

Managed the Charity and hackathon platforms at DAO1 - Community led Socio Economic Blockchain Architecture
Worked with a dozen tokens and DAOs that never took off in areas such as smart contract development, tokenism, whitepaper, feasibility studies and even source code scanning.

Lead developer on upgrading well drilling visualization from 2D to 3D with a webgl based application to better help in real time drilling decisions and projections.

Acquired....!!
Designing a 3D customization platform using Three.js, Blender models, maya 3D and Webgl with Augmented Reality enabled and a smart manufacturing automation system.
Zraya was formed out of personal need for decent personalized+customized furniture and the frustration to learn and explain requirements to the manufacturers.

Led, designed and developed/managed the entire payroll and employee management platform and instrumental in designing and adding expenses, esops and asset management functionality to the application

Volubilis Provides Remote Workers on a Co-working/dedicated resources model and handles small and mid-sized projects from wireframing to marketing.

Born out of personal need. Researchers face numerous bottlenecks when making important decisions when it comes to lab tech, consumables and services.
Labcritics focuses of reviewing lab tech, services and application and seeks to create am unbiased resource for researchers to depend on.

One of the early employees focused mostly on frontend for WP, Drupal, PHP, Node. Worked on almost two dozen projects and handled multiple clients and their development and digital marketing requirements.

A pretty unique venture that seeks to showcase the ability of humans and organizations to do good. I handled the Business and tech development. Extensively explored blockchain and experimented with its integration into the app for doing good to circumvent government controls over donations.

My first mobile first project and in a completely unrelated area to my past expertise also in a completely new place (Dubai). Worked with non-profits and company CSRs to identify the huge gap between two.

Worked as a Web Developer in San Francisco, where revamped a craigslist type site into what it is now in a matter of five months. Had an amazing first hand experience of the silicon valley startup environment.

An very early experiment to push life science companies to adopt open innovation based recruitment model that has been quite successful with IT companies.

My first own start-up, an umbrella under which began a series of experiments. Two of which were Journal of Errology and Labcritics.

Content manager and Web Developer. Handled extensive SEO optimization for clients.