Ed Shadi
Founder & CTO at WoW AI
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolEd Shadi is a founder and CTO with 14 years of experience building scalable, product-focused engineering teams and AI-native platforms from idea to market. Currently leading WOW AI, he designs conversational analytics that turn chaotic eCommerce data into actionable, talkative insights, and previously founded SmartyGuide AI for hospitality and led CoLearn’s EdTech architecture. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (React, Node, Go, Ruby) with technical leadership across microservices, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, and has deep experience shipping production systems and microfrontends at scale. An early contributor to algorithm-focused repos like Cracking the Coding Interview implementations, he blends core CS rigor with startup hustle. Based in Oakland, his background in political economy and computer science informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to AI productization.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Franklin UniversityB.A. Political Science and Economics, B.A. Political Science and Economics at The American University in Cairo
French, Arabic, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
hashtable10
data-structures10
algorithms10
javascript10
data-structure10
doubly-linked-list10
ruby10
strings8
text-manipulation8
php6
cakephp6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
careercup/ctci
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Cracking the Coding Interview, 5th Edition
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ed contributed significantly to implementing data structures and algorithms, primarily in Ruby and JavaScript, reflecting a focus on core computer science concepts. They implemented singly and doubly linked lists, hash tables, and solutions to various linked list problems in Ruby. Additionally, the user implemented a solution for a string rotation problem and fundamental data structures in JavaScript, indicating a focus on both the backend and frontend aspects of algorithm implementation.
cpp5th-editionc-plus-pluscracking-the-coding-interviewcracking
edshadi/react-7guis
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 1 branch in 9 days
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