Amjad Masad
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Amjad Fawzi Masad | |
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| Born | Amman, Amman Governorate, Jordan |
| Nationality | Jordanian |
| Education | Princess Sumaya University for Technology |
| 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 https://amasad.me/ blog] and occasionally participates in interviews and conferences.
Early life and education
Amjad Fawzi Masad was born to Fawzi Masad, a Syrian engineer, and an Algerian mother in Amman, Jordan. According to Masad, his family was originally from Palestine but left in 1948.[2] He started coding at age 5, and had been interested in business since his teenage years.[3]
Masad 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]
In 2024, he was featured on an episode of The Tucker Carlson Show.[11]
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, 9 April 2022, 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.
- ↑ "Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- ↑ "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".
- ↑ "Amjad Masad: The Cults of Silicon Valley and Woke AI". tuckercarlson.com. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
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