Summary
Khaliq Gant is a seasoned software leader and founder with 13 years of engineering and product experience, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of Agent Workforce in Oslo. He was the first hire and founding engineer at Nango (YC W23), scaling the product and infrastructure from two customers to 150+, and has repeatedly built core systems from scratch for startups and SMBs. Khaliq’s background spans hands-on infrastructure work—Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker, Ansible—and product replatforms that enable scalable, multi-tenant deployments for customers. He led European development for Happy Cog and has advised and interim-built early MVPs for marketplaces like Titl, blending strategic hiring with pragmatic engineering. A former competitive athlete who recovered fully from a life-changing injury, he brings resilience and a people-first perspective to technical leadership. Outside work he describes himself playfully as a “professional music listener,” hinting at a creative, curious mind that informs his product instincts.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Communications Business, BS College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Communications Business at Cornell University
Graduate Foundations Certificate Computer Science, Graduate Foundations Certificate Computer Science at Columbia University
Tabor Academy
HIES
English, Spanish, Norwegian, French, American Sign Language, Hebrew