Hamzah Chaudhary
Co-Founder & CEO at Lightdash
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHamzah Chaudhary is a founder and product-led engineering leader with 10 years of experience building data-driven products and startups, currently scaling Lightdash as Co-Founder & CEO from San Francisco. He blends hands-on engineering (data pipelines, production APIs, Docker/GCP) with product and customer-facing roles, having seeded growth at Cytora across engineering, product management and customer success. Hamzah has repeatedly turned complex enterprise problems into simpler user experiences—e.g., leading the UK’s first AI-powered commercial insurance platform and cutting a quoting flow from 32 to 4 questions. He’s experienced in early-stage scaling, having been an early hire at Cytora and bootstrapped consumer ventures himself, and mentors founders through work with Founders Academy. Fluent in French and Arabic academically, he pairs linguistic curiosity with technical rigor from programs at UCL and Hack Reactor. He’s passionate about bringing software engineering and UX principles to analytics to reduce barriers to insight for data teams.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), European & Middle Eastern Languages & Linguistics (French & Arabic), Bachelor of Arts (BA), European & Middle Eastern Languages & Linguistics (French & Arabic) at University College London, U. of LondonHigh School, High School at Altrincham Grammar School for BoysAdvanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack ReactorY CombinatorHigh School, High School at International School of Choueifat
English, French, Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic
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Github Skills (37)
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Github contributions (5)
Nondescript-Cheese/SumoChickn
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:144 commits, 57 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 months
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lets-flourish/lets-flourish.github.io
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Directory of independent businesses responding to the COVID-19 crisis
Contributions:86 pushes in 19 days
independentcrisisdirectorybusinesses
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