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Syed Shehroz Hussain

Co-founder, Delfy

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Syed Shehroz Hussain co-founded Delfy, an iOS app for finding friends through shared interests, where its site listed him as "Ozzy Hussain, Co-founder" beside Nino Melikidze. The app launched in the United States and Canada in December 2018, planned a Toronto relaunch for late 2019, and shut down for lack of funding. He studied at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Syed hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Syed co-founded Delfy, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Did Syed Shehroz Hussain co-found Delfy?

Yes. Delfy's own site, delfy.app, in Wayback Machine captures of 2019-01-17 and 2019-07-17 read 2026-10-23, had a "Who Are We?" section listing "Ozzy Hussain, Co-founder, Industry: Software, Interests: Travelling and Hiking" beside "Nino Melikidze, Co-founder, Industry: IT". The site's blog filed its two 2018 posts by "Ozzy" ("Here we are...", 2018-06-28, and "How do you meet new people?", 2018-07-11) under the author path /author/shehrozhussain/ (capture of 2019-08-22), which ties the nickname to Syed Shehroz Hussain. No fetched page gives him a fuller title than co-founder.

What was Delfy?

Delfy's site (capture of 2019-01-17) called it "a social app for finding friends around you based on interests", said it was "Available on the Apple App Store starting December 10th, 2018" and that the "First release is available only for iOS in USA and Canada." By October 2019 the site's FAQ said "Currently the app is still unavailable" and "We are launching our iOS MVP in Toronto, Canada at the end of 2019" (capture of 2019-10-19). Co-founder Nino Melikidze's own account, cited on Delfy's page in this directory, says the project was shut down for insufficient funding. On 2026-10-23 delfy.app redirected to a domain-for-sale page.

What does Syed Shehroz Hussain do now?

Not verified. No fetched page states his current role. His own LinkedIn profile, read in guest view on 2026-10-23, lists Salesforce as his employer with no title shown and Worcester Polytechnic Institute as his school; it is not press and is not linked here. The title shown is the one from Delfy's own site.

Has Syed Shehroz Hussain spoken at TechTO?

No. Delfy's one stage appearance was co-founder Nino Melikidze's "Demo of the Month: Delfy" at TechVancouver, published 2018-12-17, in which she referred to her Boston-based co-founder "Ozzy". The archived delfy.app homepage (capture of 2019-07-17) embedded that same TechVancouver video under the heading "Delfy Overview and Demo".

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