Founder Profile
Faris Masad
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Faris Masad?
Faris Masad is a founder of Replit, which was founded in 2016 with Amjad Masad and Haya Odeh.
- Company founded
- Replit
- Founded
- 2016
- Co-founders
- Amjad Masad and Haya Odeh
Background
Software engineer and tech entrepreneur.
Founding Story
Faris Masad co-founded Replit in 2016. Serving as the early engineering foundation alongside his brother Amjad, he built out the incredibly robust backend infrastructure required to spin up millions of isolated, containerized coding environments instantly in the browser. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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