Summary
Daher Alfawares is a hands-on technology leader and co-founder with over two decades of low-level and systems programming experience and a 12-year track record in engineering leadership and architecture. He blends deep C++ proficiency and performance-critical scientific/graphics work with five years of iOS development and several years designing event-driven, Kubernetes-native microservices and AI data pipelines. As CTO he pairs product-minded infrastructure design with rigorous security, privacy, and compliance ownership, and has led teams of 50+ engineers to deliver high-throughput financial and real-time systems. His career spans startups and scale-ups including Tesla and Kin + Carta, where he improved reporting performance by 95% and built real-time iPad messaging and large-scale ETL/CQRS platforms. Known for mentoring engineers and codifying autonomous development processes (notably using Go, Istio, and GCP), he also creates computed visual art and developer tools that reflect a strong interest in performance and visuals. Based in Los Altos, he combines entrepreneurial drive with pragmatic, production-focused engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Jordan
English, Arabic