Dali Kilani is a seasoned technology leader and board member with 14+ years building cloud-native platforms, big data systems, and cross-device web and mobile applications. He has led engineering and product teams from SoC architecture at Nvidia to web-scale social gaming at Zynga and enterprise healthcare infrastructure as CTO of Lifen, combining deep hands-on technical expertise with strategic product and fundraising experience. Dali co-founded FlexAI to commercialize workload-aware AI infrastructure and has been active as an angel investor and advisor across startups, reflecting a knack for spotting and scaling early-stage innovation. Comfortable across backend, frontend, DevOps and data stacks, he uniquely bridges hardware-software co-design and modern cloud/PaaS operations, bringing both low-level rigor and product-driven speed to uncertain, fast-moving environments. Based in Cologne and trained at École Polytechnique and Stanford, he often validates ideas experimentally before committing them to market.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieur, Electrical Engineering, Ingenieur, Electrical Engineering at École Polytechnique
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
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