Abdullah Navid
Software Engineer & Founder, N. Systems
Abdullah builds at both ends of the stack most engineers only work at one of: benchmarking NPU chip performance under tensor parallelism at Huawei, then turning around and shipping cloud migrations, internal tools, and MCP integrations for real businesses within weeks. He founded N. Systems to put that same rigor directly in reach of SMEs, and he's already delivering for two enterprise clients.
Before Oxford, he spent over a year contracted through Sparta Global to PA Consulting and sub-contracted into the Home Office, shipping production Java systems in a high-trust, high-compliance environment. That's the same delivery discipline he brings to every client engagement today.
Research rigor, delivered like a contractor who ships.
From government-grade Java delivery to hands-on hardware benchmarking to running his own consultancy, a career built around getting hard things into production.
N. Systems
Founder
Aug 2026 - present · London, UK
- Consulting for two enterprise clients within the first month of operating.
- Migrated a tutoring agency's physical bookkeeping onto a cloud-based platform.
- Built an MCP for a social support team to get help to people faster.
Huawei Technologies
Research Intern
Jul 2025 - Sept 2025 · Cambridge, UK
- Verified NPU chip performance by collecting benchmark data on tensor parallelism strategies.
Sparta Global
Junior Java Developer
Aug 2022 - Oct 2023 · London, UK
- Contracted to PA Consulting and sub-contracted to the Home Office.
- Delivered production Java systems on Spring Boot, backed by JUnit test suites.
Building in public, even between client work.
Chess Engine
Jun 2026 - presentOpen-source chess engine in C++, with an MLP trained to pick strong moves at a 5-move search depth and the board, positions, and moves encoded entirely in binary for speed.
MCMC Model Verification
May 2026Undergraduate dissertation verifying neural processes and surrogates, including BSA-TNP and DeepRV, against biostatistical data, with tests built in JAX.