Summary
Amanie Ismail is a COO and co-founder with 10+ years of engineering and startup leadership, currently scaling Meya.ai’s intelligent bot platform to help enterprises build deep-domain digital assistants. A serial entrepreneur, she previously built ProductWiki into a profitable, high-traffic consumer site that produced 20K in-depth reports annually and was acquired in 2013. Her background blends hands-on software engineering, product design, and go-to-market strategy—she drives both platform development and rapid customer acquisition. Earlier ventures include mobile-centric products at Kue and engineering leadership at Finisar, where she led offshore transitions that halved production time. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, she focuses on practical ways AI and humans can collaborate more effectively, combining systems design training with operational grit.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Systems Design Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
French, Arabic