Amjad Fawzi Masad
| Amjad Fawzi Masad | |
|---|---|
| Born | Amman, Amman Governorate, Jordan |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Jordanian |
| 🏫 Education | Princess Sumaya University for Technology |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Replit |
Amjad Masad is a Jordanian-American programmer and entrepreneur. He is best known for co-founding Replit, an online IDE supporting various social features. He formerly worked at Yahoo, Codecademy, and Facebook[1], where he worked on projects such as React Native and Babel. In addition, he maintains a personal blog and occasionally participates in interviews and conferences.
Early life and education
Amjad Fawzi Masad was born to Fawzi Masad, a Syrian engineer and his mother, an Algerian, on in Amman, Jordan. According to Masad, his family was originally from Palestine but left in 1948[2]. According to Masad, he started coding at age 5, and had been interested in business since his teenage years[3].
He attended Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) for 6 years, where he frequently skipped classes to build software. This led to him being removed from his calculus class twice, a requirement for his graduation. He eventually hacked into PSUT's network, where he was able to change his grades to pass this class[4]. Upon learning of this, the school's administration offered him to waive any punishment for his actions and collaborated with him to fix parts of the network.[5]
Career
After becoming a citizen of the United States in 2011[6], Masad worked at Yahoo! from April to November of that year[7]. From November 2011 to October 2013, Masad worked at Codecademy. There, he implemented his open source online console jqConsole into the Codecademy project[8] and wrote tutorials. While at Codecademy, he started to develop jsrepl, an online IDE that would later develop into Replit[9][10].
References
- ↑ amasad.me. "Amjad Masad". amasad.me. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
- ↑ "Amjad Masad ⠕ on Twitter: "@gbrl_dick This is Amman, Jordan. Family left Palestine in 1948, Father born in Syria and then relocated to Jordan. Sadly, I've never been to the West Bank."". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
- ↑ ReplCon 2022 Keynote - Amjad, retrieved 2022-07-02
- ↑ "Amjad Masad ⠕ on Twitter: "@Austen It's a longer story. I wanted to graduate without attending so I changed my grade and passed myself. I spent 3 weeks in the basement hacking non stop. I did polyphasic sleeping which worked surprisingly well — take a nap while the scripts are running!"". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
- ↑ "Young, Hungry and Waiting to Be Unleashed". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
- ↑ "https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1475933656078114817". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-11-05. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ "Experience | Amjad Masad | LinkedIn".
- ↑ "Announcing Our Newest Hire + Codecademy Labs". Codecademy News. 2011-12-01. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ↑ JSREPL, replit-archive, 2022-10-05, retrieved 2022-11-05
- ↑ Amjad Masad (2012-05-31). "Foolangjs".
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