Amjad Masad
Background
Amjad Masad was born in Amman, Jordan, and earned his computer science degree from Princess Sumaya University for Technology. A self-taught programmer, he created JSREPL, worked at Codecademy, and served as an engineer at Yahoo! and Facebook, where he built core developer infrastructure and helped launch React Native.
Role at Replit
Amjad Masad is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Replit. An inspiring technologist, author, and thought leader, Masad is widely celebrated for his mission to bring the next billion software creators online.
Under Masad's leadership, Replit grew from a two-person startup into a $1.16 billion Silicon Valley unicorn. Masad pioneered the concept of cloud-native development environments, championed the creation of Replit Agent, and remains an influential public advocate for technological abundance, individual empowerment, and immigrant founder grit.