Abdo Achkar
Founder & CEO at Rebel Fund
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAbdo Achkar is a founder and serial technology executive with 13 years of experience building and scaling startups from Palo Alto, currently leading Sowlutions—a tech-for-equity firm that has built and launched over 30 companies—while serving as CTO for multiple fast-growing ventures including FramePop AI and Thematic. He blends hands-on engineering and product leadership with active investing and board roles across diverse sectors (marketplaces, AI, fintech, and consumer), helping ventures from market entry to fundraising (Agora has helped raise over $500M). Comfortable switching hats between founder, CTO, and investor, Abdo is known for preferring simple, pragmatic solutions to large problems and for architecting systems that enable rapid company launches. A longtime entrepreneur with roots in algorithmic trading and firmware, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with executive training at Stanford GSB, bringing both technical depth and strategic grit to early-stage companies.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Executive Program, Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at American University of Science and TechnologyM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Villanova University
Stackoverflow
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vim
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ruby
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ruby-on-rails
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hash
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javascript
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Github Skills (147)
entity-relationship10
ruby10
relationship10
javascript10
browser10
android-apps10
static-site-generator10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
nextjs10
react10
app-framework9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zxiest/delayed_job_active_record_threaded
Sep 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:32 commits in 8 months
zxiest/pry-nav
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Binding navigation commands for Pry to make a simple debugger
Contributions:4 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
bindingpryffidebuggernavigation
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