Haider Abbas
New Haven, CT · haiderabbas0882@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/habbas12
Operator and two-time founder. Underwrote about $6B in credit at Silicon Valley Bank, managed a restaurant team of 20, ran a healthcare AI pilot at Yale New Haven Health and built voice AI that has handled 2,000 calls.
Experience
DohosNew Haven, CT
Voice AI that answers restaurant phone orders
Founder2025 – Present
- Built voice AI that takes restaurant phone orders; handled about 2,000 real customer calls in live testing
- Cut model context and built custom voice detection in Rust to hold down the cost of every call
- Designed the order flow: the model proposes changes, code checks the menu and prices, and the caller confirms
- Pitched Pizza Boli's corporate on a pilot, shaping the deck with a GM on headquarters versus store needs
FormIQNew Haven, CT
Healthcare AI startup automating document intake for health systems
Co-Founder and Technical Lead2024 – 2026
- Ran a two-month orthopedics pilot at Yale New Haven Health with 10 to 12 administrative staff; processed about 2,000 documents and saved roughly 300 staff hours (measured)
- Led product and technical development; mapped intake, routing and human review with the staff doing the work
- Cleared security and clinical reviews; led most of the executive presentation; reached final-stage procurement
- Health system chose an established vendor on maturity, then invited us to continue through its innovation center
Silicon Valley BankSan Francisco, CA
Associate, Global Fund Banking and Venture Capital2022 – 2024
- Underwrote about $6B in credit facilities for PE and VC funds, covering 20 to 40 fund clients at a time
- Managed credit on a portfolio of about $2.5B at departure; average facility about $200M for PE, $35M for VC
- Wrote hundreds of credit memos; presented new facilities to the Chief Credit Officer's committee
- Led the move of covenant compliance from a shared inbox to a SharePoint site pairing data with source files
- Kept five key fund clients informed through SVB's March 2023 failure and helped credit work resume
Associate Development Program2022
- Promoted to Associate in 6 months, on a program that typically takes 2 years
Pizza Boli'sBaltimore, MD
Family-run pizza restaurant
Manager (promoted from Assistant Manager)2018 – 2022
- Managed a high-volume restaurant with a team of about 20 across ordering, kitchen and delivery
- Negotiated supplier pricing and rebuilt phone-order coverage with VOIP and offshore staff
- Shifted dough orders to larger sizes that could be cut down, absorbing recurring size-specific shortages
- Stepped in for the family owners on finance and operating problems when needed
Education
Yale School of ManagementNew Haven, CT
MBA program: completed 3 of 4 semesters; degree not conferred2024 – 2026
- Accepted into Yale's Tsai CITY startup program to develop Dohos
University of MarylandCollege Park, MD
Master of Science (MS), Finance2021
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Science, cum laude; GPA 3.642020
Additional
- Languages
- English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi
- Technical
- Excel, Python, SQL; build software with AI coding agents
- Current contract work
- Independent contractor evaluating AI model outputs for Mercor (2026 – present)
- Certification
- ServSafe
- Work authorization
- U.S. citizen