Summary
Ahmad Hassan is a product-focused software engineer and early-stage leader with five years of experience, currently serving as Head of Customer Engineering and a founding engineer at Open (YC W24) where he helps shape an AI-driven customer product. He moved from frontend engineering at OpenChatai into founding roles, blending hands-on coding with customer-facing technical leadership to deliver product-ready features. Comfortable across the stack, he leverages rapid iteration and product sensibility to translate customer needs into engineering priorities. Trained originally in dentistry at Al-Azhar University and having completed CS50, he brings an unusual combination of empirical care, attention to detail, and self-taught CS foundations. Based in Cairo, Ahmad pairs startup grit with a collaborative approach to scaling AI products. Outside work he’s known for a love of anime and coffee, a humanizing touch that keeps teams grounded.
5 years of coding experience
Dentistry, Dentistry at Al-Azhar University
CS50
Arabic, English