Kareem Amin
Cofounder CEO at Clay
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKareem Amin is a seasoned founder and product-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building web and mobile-first products and developer tools. As cofounder and CEO of Clay, he leads a GTM development platform used by over 5,000 customers including OpenAI and Canva, blending product strategy with hands-on engineering. His background spans full-stack technologies—from frontend UI design and JavaScript/HTML5 to backend systems in Python, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB—reflecting a strong systems-to-UI fluency. Kareem has repeatedly taken ideas from early prototypes to acquisition and scale, having cofounded Frame and led product engineering at Sailthru before senior product roles at The Wall Street Journal and Microsoft. He brings an unusual mix of academic research experience in neuroscience and cosmology software to practical startup execution, which informs his data-driven, experimental approach to growth tooling. Based in New York, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with technical depth to turn creative growth ideas into production-ready products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at International School of ChoueifatB.Eng Electrical Engineering + almost minored in Physics :), B.Eng Electrical Engineering + almost minored in Physics :) at McGill University
Arabic, English, French
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Github Skills (40)
clay10
faas9
aws9
cli9
functions-as-a-service8
js-client7
lenses6
coverage6
data-visualizations6
nodejs5
browserstack5
teaspoon5
javascript4
visualization4
rails4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lenses/lenscomposer
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
clay-run/clay-client
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Node JS Client to run Clay functions from code
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 8 months
js-clientnode-jsjavascriptnodejsclay
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