Ahmad Khan
Co-Founder at Hex Security
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmad 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 CombinatorBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (25)
withings10
predict9
fitbit9
wearable-devices8
language-processing8
retrieval7
fitness7
smartphone7
causality7
natural-language-processing7
health7
nlp7
bioinformatics5
cufflinks5
portal5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
YounisLab/genome-db
Apr 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
mak2508/15441_p3
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:189 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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