about

I’m Osama Khan, a Canadian engineer and entrepreneur. These days, I’m exploring ideas that bring man<>machine closer and improve healthspan as a Menlo Fellow.

Previously, I built burrata.xyz, a compliance and identity startup. Before this, I led product and engineering @segment, @streamlabs and @acl. I started my career as a Petroleum Economist and later worked as a Private Equity Analyst across the Middle East and Africa.

I consult for a living and work across AI, Crypto and Developer Tools.

I invest my money and have been fortunate to write small checks to some great founders/friends across deep tech, AI, developer tools, and crypto.

I’m on a perpetual leave from @gtcomputing, where I studied distributed systems and machine learning. I have an MBA and a prior undergrad in computer science, where my research focus was machine learning and robotics. I’m a NASM-Certified Personal Trainer and Nutrition Coach.

∎ socials

∎ bookshelf

  1. Courage to be {Disliked, Happy} by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
  2. Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
  3. I Don’t Want to Talk About It by Terrence Real
  4. Ikigai by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
  5. The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
  6. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
  7. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  8. Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy
  9. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  10. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
  11. Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
  12. Mastery by Robert Greene
  13. Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
  14. Behave by Robert Sapolsky
  15. Outlive by Peter Attia
  16. Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
  17. Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

∎ patents, papers and awards

∎ talks, press and media

∎ licenses and certifications