Amjad Masad (Arabic: أمجد مسعد) 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. [1]
Masad was born in Amman, Jordan. [2] His family is Muslim, his father's family is Palestinian, and his mother's is Algerian. [3] Despite his father family's financial struggles, Masad stated that he was very lucky because Palestinians value education more than anything else. [3]
Masad is a computer science graduate from Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Jordan. [4] 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. [5]
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. [4]