Summary
Jad Nohra is a founding engineer and hands-on engineering leader with 25+ years of cross-domain experience spanning game physics, autonomous vehicles, and cryptographic hardware acceleration. He has built and scaled teams up to 25 engineers while remaining deeply involved in low-level systems work—SIMD/vectorization, Rust-based ZK toolchains, FPGA interfaces, and safety-critical ASIL-D systems. Known for bridging silos, Jad translates formal systems requirements into validated software and drove product pivots via rigorous hardware feasibility analysis. He combines startup velocity with enterprise rigor, having led simulation, validation, and safety efforts at Argo AI and teams acquired into major players. Based in Berlin, he repeatedly oscillates between IC-depth and technical leadership, and his career thread is a knack for re-solving hard problems across domains rather than settling on one stack.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Mathematics, MS, Mathematics at Emporia State University
BE, Computer and Communications Engineering, BE, Computer and Communications Engineering at American University of Beirut
English, German, French, Czech, Arabic