Feross Aboukhadijeh
Founder & CEO at Andreessen Horowitz
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Feross Aboukhadijeh is a founder and CEO with 15+ years building developer-first infrastructure and widely used open source software, currently leading Socket to secure software supply chains. He previously founded PeerCDN (acquired by Yahoo) and created WebTorrent and StandardJS—projects that helped shape browser P2P streaming and JavaScript tooling used by millions. Feross blends deep full-stack engineering (from buffer/polyfills to BitTorrent DHTs and browser integrations) with product and security leadership, and he teaches web security at Stanford. His work spans production-scale systems and developer ergonomics, evidenced by 100+ npm packages and contributions to core projects like Node and Browserify. An active angel investor and a16z scout, he uniquely pairs entrepreneurial experience with academic teaching and prolific open-source maintainership. Outside the obvious, he often ships small but impactful compatibility and testing fixes that keep large ecosystems reliable.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (88)
peer-to-peer10
testing10
command-line-interface10
uint8array10
base64-encoding10
linter10
browserify10
assert10
lessc10
streaming10
javascript10
browser10
bundle10
front-end-development10
html10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
feross/thanks
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
🙌 Give thanks to the open source maintainers you depend on! ✨
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:262 commits, 130 PRs, 187 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Feross focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the "thanks" application. Their contributions included adding a progress spinner, opening donation links in the default browser, and improving the layout for better readability. They also refactored the code for clearer flow and implemented features to show direct dependencies and team donations.
javascriptfundingnodejsnpmmaintainers
webtorrent/webtorrent
Oct 2013 - Jun 2022
⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 2262 commits, 438 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Feross appears to be a back-end developer, primarily focused on the internal structure and build process of the project. The commits build the webtorrent project.
browserp2pbittorrentjavascriptstreaming
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