About Zafar

I've been building AI and platform products for over a decade, at places where the work had to ship and stay shipped. At Cruise, I worked on the ML data platform and autonomy toolchain behind self-driving cars. At Walmart, I led the charge to commercialize Walmarts internal operations, into a stand alone product, working directly with partners like Apple and Home Depot. Most recently, I led product for an AI-native operations platform at a multi billion dollar PE-backed AI infrastructure company, stitching 25+ enterprise systems into a single agentic layer running more than $1B of datacenter operations. Over the last two years, I've also had a lot of conversations outside my own company. Founders from seed through Series B. VPs at Fortune 500s. Operators in industries that rarely show up in AI headlines. The same pattern kept surfacing. They understood what AI could do. What they couldn't figure out was where to start, what to build first, and how to avoid spending six months on the wrong thing. That gap is what I work on now. Big companies can spend millions standing up internal AI teams and still miss the mark on their first few bets. Most builders don't have that runway or headcount. Whether you're a PM trying to move into AI, a founder deciding where to place your first real investment, or a functional leader who needs to get from idea to working prototype without an army of engineers, I can help you get there faster and with fewer wrong turns.