Samrose Ahmed
Co-Founder at Matano (YC W23)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamrose Ahmed is a software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience, currently co-founder and CEO of Matano (YC W23), where he’s building a cloud-native SIEM on a high-performance security data lake. He previously built large-scale systems at Amazon/AWS, including work on Amazon API Gateway, giving him deep operational experience with distributed, high-throughput services. A CMU-trained mechanical engineer who transitioned into software, he brings systems-level thinking and a performance-first approach to security telemetry and platform design. Based in Seattle, he blends hands-on engineering, product leadership, and startup grit to turn complex security data into scalable, production-ready tooling.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bronx High School of ScienceBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
matanolabs/matano
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS
Contributions:30 reviews, 491 commits, 77 PRs in 6 months
secopsdfirserverlessloggingcloud-security
Samrose-Ahmed/CFD-Navier-Stokes
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 45 pushes in 3 days
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