Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad 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.

Early life

Masad was born in Amman, Jordan. His family is Muslim, his father's family is Palestinian, and his mother's is Algerian. Despite his father family's financial struggles, Masad stated that he was very lucky because Palestinians value education more than anything else.

Career

Masad is a computer science graduate from Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Jordan. 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.
In 2016, he co-founded Replit. It was established as an online integrated development environment by Masad, his wife Haya Odeh, and his brother Faris.