Amjad Masad

Jordanian-American businessman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amjad Masad (Arabic: أمجد مسعد; born 1987 or 1988[1]) is a Jordanian-American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is the founder and CEO of Replit. Before Replit, Masad worked at Facebook, overseeing the JavaScript infrastructure team and also as a founding engineer at Codecademy.[2]

Early life

Amjad Masad was born and raised in Amman, Jordan, in a modest family with Palestinian heritage.[3] His father, a civil engineer from a Palestinian refugee background, emphasized the importance of education. Masad later moved to the United States for opportunities in technology. [4]

Career

Masad is a computer science graduate from Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Jordan.[5] After moving from Jordan, he worked various jobs in Silicon Valley, including a stint as a software engineer at Facebook from October 2013 to April 2016. Before Facebook, Masad was a founding engineer at Codecademy from November 2011 to October 2013.[6][7]

In 2016, he co-founded Replit. It was established as an online integrated development environment (IDE) by Masad, his wife Haya Odeh, and his brother Faris.[5]

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