Taq Karim is currently Tech Lead of the demand side (DSP) team at PlaceExchange, a programmatic advertising exchange platform for out of home media. He also moonlights as a lecturer, leading workshops and courses on a wide variety of topics (frontend / backend) in institutions such as Coalition 4 Queens (now Pursuit), The Startup Institute, NYCDA, OneMonth, The King’s College and Columbia Splash. In his spare time, Taq is usually thinking about math, building software, working on hardware hacks for home automation or hanging out with his cat.