Karim Khattaby is a driven technology leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of VaulFi with a decade of experience building AI-first, cloud-native products from Dubai. He rose to Deputy CTO by 26 and helped scale an AI startup to over $15M ARR, demonstrating both strategic growth and hands-on engineering. Karim led the launch of the first GPU-as-a-Service offering in MENA, delivering infrastructure used by millions and earning recognition from AWS and Microsoft for innovative AI work. His background spans full-stack and security engineering roles, mentoring, and advisory work for stealth AI ventures, blending product delivery with developer experience and operational rigor. Despite an unfinished master's, Karim’s trajectory shows a pattern of shipping large-scale ML infrastructure and translating research-grade models into reliable production services.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science (Incomplete), Master's degree Computer Science (Incomplete) at Arizona State University
Data Structures & Algorithms Nanodegree Computer Science, Data Structures & Algorithms Nanodegree Computer Science at Udacity
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Sharjah
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Karim Khattaby - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth AI Startup