Ali Fathalian
Co-founder & CTO at Roam.xyz
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Fathalian is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of engineering and executive experience, currently serving as Co-founder & CTO of Roam.xyz in San Francisco. He previously led large engineering organizations at Coinbase and served as CTO at Earn.com, bringing deep expertise in scaling product and infrastructure for crypto and consumer platforms. His background spans early-stage startups to major tech firms like Adobe, reflecting a knack for moving from hands-on engineering to strategic technical leadership. Ali combines formal graduate training from the University of Washington with practical founder grit, having co-founded multiple ventures before Roam.xyz. Known for a sharp blend of product intuition and systems thinking, he also has a playful public persona—"I Drink Wine and Know Things"—that underscores a confident, curious approach to technology and teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Masters of Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Tehran
Github Skills (37)
command-line-interface10
bitcoin10
cryptocurrency9
docker-container7
amazon6
amazon-ec25
testing4
docker4
agent4
aws4
elastic4
android3
rest3
elasticsearch3
react3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Fathalian/west
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
reactfindingnodejsapartmentstypescript
Fathalian/farnsworth
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:22 pushes in 5 months
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