Zayd Ahmad Shahizam Room

Designing a better world
one bet at a time.

Looking to work in decarbonization with an interest in architecture, urban design, and mobility.

Designing a better world one bet at a time.

Looking to work in decarbonization with an interest in architecture, urban design, and mobility.

A canal-house loft in one-point perspective toward the window wall: white plaster walls, oak joists, a light oak floor, a long oak desk whose edge runs back to the window. On it an open laptop, a bonsai, a steaming mocha and a Malaysia Airlines A350-900 model in the flag-themed Negaraku livery on its stand; books on the sill. On the left wall his matte black Tenways e-bike, with black mudguards and a thin black belt, hangs by its front wheel on a hook. Outside: sunlit lime crowns, white and colourful canal fronts and the Dom.

The story, chapter by chapter

about 12
aeronautics

At 12 I wanted to design aircraft. So I read the books on how they're designed, long before I could follow half of the maths.

the aircraft-design book
about 15
programming and AI

Then I found code. Neural networks too, back when RNNs and LSTMs were the exciting thing, and the laptop basically never closed again.

the laptop
2019
Kuala Lumpur to London

Aeronautical engineering at Imperial. One A350 from KL to Heathrow, then years on the Piccadilly and District lines.

the A350 model
2020
machine learning

Alongside uni I joined INVOKE to pivot and relaunch adnexio. It grew past 300,000 users, and machine learning stopped being a hobby.

the neural-networks book
2024
London to the Netherlands

Graduated, took the Eurostar to Amsterdam and joined Workwize, a company growing fast enough that its systems had to learn to talk to each other.

the room, the window and the canal
2025
product manager

I moved into product: finance and integrations first, then the platform migration.

the mocha
about 12, aeronautics