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Majeed Thaika

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Majeed Thaika

Software Engineer at Nash

Majeed Thaika leads route optimization at Nash, the autonomic logistics platform that unifies decisioning and execution across fleets, carriers, and fulfillment networks. He joined Nash as an early engineer in 2022 and built the financial infrastructure behind its last-mile deliveries. Before Nash, he built NLP systems at Primer, applied machine learning to smartwatch data at Cardiogram, and did AI research on taxi GPS data at Toyota. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.

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Two side-by-side maps of the same delivery route: the clean five-stop plan the routing system uses, and the same route covered in a driver’s handwritten notes about traffic, access codes and parking
Engineering
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Route optimization keeps improving. It still can’t see what drivers see.

Solvers are good at the math. Plans still fall apart on the road, because the rules that matter live in a planner’s head and the travel times come from a map that has never driven the route.