Tahir Mahmood Email & Phone Number

Tahir Mahmood is a Co-Founder at KRNL Labs based in Manchester, England, United Kingdom, Europe. Entrepreneurial and pioneering, Tahir is a hands-on senior technologist, Chief Technology Officer, business architecture practitioner, Enterprise/Software/Systems Architect, entrepreneur, and polyglot developer with over 39 years of experience. His journey began with an industrial placement in 1986 at the Loughborough University of Technology Computer-Human Interface Research Centre, where he worked on operating systems, distributed computing, and Artificial Intelligence. He then joined Microsoft in 1989 as the Technical Lead for Operating Systems and Programming Languages. Tahir is the sole named inventor of over 40 patents in Web3, smart connected clothing, the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, immersive reality, and telecommunications. He is also the inventor of “Push E-mail,” which became the foundation for the BlackBerry by Research In Motion. He has driven operational excellence, digital transformations, and tactical initiatives by implementing mission-critical systems and enabling technologies that support business processes and strategic goals in regulated sectors, including medical, banking, law enforcement, and the military. Tahir's broad expertise spans multi-platform environments (mobile, distributed, cross-cloud, mainframe, decentralized), financial systems, big data, health platforms, AI (machine learning and deep learning), networks, cybersecurity, blockchain (smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance, decentralized applications), telecommunications, cloud architecture, and full project lifecycle management. He is skilled in Agile methodologies, the Scaled Agile Framework, Lean principles, systems thinking, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban, and excels in client and vendor management, marketing, financial and operational management, and product strategy. A seasoned entrepreneur, technologist, and creative, Tahir has founded and operated diverse companies worldwide. He remains an active full-stack developer with deep knowledge in UNIX, mini/mainframes (COBOL), Assembler, C, Smalltalk, Prolog, LISP, Blockchain and has engaged in kernel-level development with AI. He started his career at Microsoft in 1989, 2.5 years before Satya Nadella joined as a junior developer. Key Milestones: - 1987: Loughborough University of Technology Computer-Human Interface Research Centre - 1989: Microsoft - 1994: Invented push email (BlackBerry) - 2005: Fashion - 2007: Apple - Present: KRNL