About

Athar Mahmood

who I am

I'm a senior engineer at AALA. I work on Lila, an AI tool that turns plain English into SQL across 95 languages. Outside the day job I write Rust. Two projects: crane (a code editor) and qck.sh (a link shortener). Away from the keyboard: games, movies, beef, table tennis.

education

Bachelor's in Computer Science. Ten years writing software since.

experience

Currently a senior engineer at AALA, working on the AI side of Lila: schema lookups, caching, prompt work, the unglamorous parts of getting an LLM to behave in production. Before AALA, ten years of mobile and web work, including running the mobile team at a Forbes 30 Under 30 company that raised a $20M Series A. crane and qck.sh are the side projects.