Amir Sharif
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmir Sharif is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building consumer-facing products and scaling marketplaces. He played a foundational engineering role at Facebook, helping grow Marketplace to over a billion users and shipping core features like Saved Searches, Notifications, and Listing Improvements. As a founder of RapPad and Binary Hands he combines product instincts, growth experience, and hands-on development to take ideas from prototype to hundreds of thousands of users. More recently he led engineering at Halo and now contributes at Y Combinator, bringing startup leadership and platform-scale expertise. Known as a disciplined developer and “hacker at heart,” he pairs a computational mathematics background with a practical focus on elegant, high-impact systems—plus an unexpected fondness for cereal.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Regional Arts Program Graduate Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts General, Regional Arts Program Graduate Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts General at Mayfield Secondary SchoolMathematics Computational Mathematics, Mathematics Computational Mathematics at University of Waterloo
English, Persian
Github Skills (200)
multithreading10
stylus10
mosh10
rack10
sass-functions10
ruby10
editor10
intellij-plugin10
lint10
sprockets10
redux10
server10
javascript-api10
rendering10
server-side10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Overload119/RapPad-Mobile-React-Native
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:32 commits, 14 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 month
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Overload119/amirsharif.com
Jan 2015 - Jul 2022
amirsharif.com
Contributions:4 PRs, 52 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
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