Jad Naous
Founder & CEO at Grepr
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJad Naous is a founder and CEO with 16 years of experience building data, observability, and infrastructure products from research to scale. Based in San Francisco, he led product, engineering, design and infosec at Imply—helping pivot the company to a SaaS, product-led business and grow the team from 12 to 90 while contributing to a valuation jump toward $1B. He previously invested and advised at Andreessen Horowitz, evaluating enterprise data, security and infrastructure companies and serving as a board observer across notable startups. Jad combines deep academic credentials (PhD and MIT postdoc) with hands-on startup execution, having launched internal startups at AppDynamics and co-founded multiple ventures. At Grepr he’s now applying real-time ML to raise signal-to-noise in observability, reflecting a consistent focus on turning complex data problems into operational tools. An uncommon thread in his career is moving fluidly between operator, founder, and investor roles, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on product-market scaling.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng. Computer Engineering, B.Eng. Computer Engineering at McGill UniversitySummer Institute for Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship, Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessPostdoc Computer Science, Postdoc Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Arabic, French
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Github Skills (85)
apache-druid10
elasticsearch10
sql10
high-performance10
database10
druid10
search-engine10
spark10
kafka10
apache10
analytics10
java10
restful10
big-data9
rest9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jnaous/incubator-druid
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Apache Druid (Incubating) - Column oriented distributed data store ideal for powering interactive applications
Contributions:8 pushes in 19 days
incubatingidealdata-storeapachebig-data
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