[4] In his junior year at Harvard, Salahuddin decided he wanted to be an actor and attended the Hangar Theater's training program.
After graduating from Harvard, Salahuddin returned to Chicago and worked as a paralegal in order to save money to be able to move to Los Angeles.
[3] In January 2016, it was confirmed that the half-hour comedy series Brothers in Atlanta, (based on a 2013 pilot) that HBO had commissioned from Salahuddin and Riddle, had been cancelled.
[5][6] In March 2016, Salahuddin was cast as the male lead in a Hulu pilot comedy, Crushed, co-starring with Regina Hall.
The show centers around two recent community college graduates trying to become entrepreneurs in Chicago's South Side, portrayed by Salahuddin's brother Sultan and Kareme Young.
Guest stars include John Legend, Questlove, Quincy Jones, Natasha Bedingfield, Tiffany Haddish and Eliza Coupe.
[15] In 2019, Salahuddin was cast in a leading role in The 24th, a film about the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment and the Houston Riot of 1917.