Ahmad Khan is a pragmatic engineer-founder with eight years of experience building infrastructure and intelligence for startups, currently co-founding Hex Security in Palo Alto. He has hands-on research engineering experience deploying robots and local LLMs on specialized hardware and has built enterprise AI capabilities for Fortune 500 clients. A University of Waterloo-trained mathematician (BMath) and MSc CS student at ETH Zurich, he blends rigorous quantitative thinking with rapid shipping—his tagline about automatic PR approvals hints at a focus on developer velocity and automation. Ahmad has moved between research, product, and program roles (TA, program manager, and engineering stints at Rubrik), giving him a rare appreciation for both customer support and low-level systems work. He values shipping practical systems quickly while keeping an eye on reliability and real-world deployability. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs startup grit with academic depth and a knack for turning prototypes into production-ready services.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at University of Waterloo
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