Jason Ahmad
CTO at Katana
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Ahmad is a seasoned technology executive and two-time venture-backed cofounder with 11 years of experience building product-led engineering organizations. As CTO of Aurora Labs he leads development of IDEX, the top decentralized application on Ethereum, applying deep product sensibility to high-throughput blockchain systems. Previously a CPO/co-founder at Epoxy, he pairs hands-on technical leadership with a founder’s mindset to turn ambiguous problems into market-ready products. Based in Santa Barbara and trained in computer science at Stanford, he blends startup grit with academic rigor and a focus on scalable, user-facing infrastructure. Notably, he emphasizes product-engineering alignment—bridging roadmap strategy and low-level implementation to ship resilient, decentralized marketplaces.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (22)
exchange10
trading9
typechain9
typescript9
ethereum9
staking9
cryptocurrency9
dex9
smart-contracts9
truffle9
metadata8
evm8
solidity8
in-progress8
blockchain7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
idexio/idex-sdk-python
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years
kumabid/IDEXd
May 2019 - Dec 2020
Staking software for the IDEX token
Contributions:6 commits, 44 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
ethereumidexstakingtoken
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