Summary
Mohammad Gharbat is a founder and engineering leader with eight years of experience building high-scale, AI-enabled products and operational systems. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he led merchant onboarding automation and large-scale crawling and verification efforts at Mollie, producing ML models that drove millions of predictions, and previously shipped services whose code runs billions of times per month at OpenSooq. At Zid he launched market-leading products from the ground up, and since April 2024 has steered his YC-backed startup Open into AI-driven customer support. He blends a strong academic grounding in computer science and digital forensics with hands-on engineering and people leadership, and maintains an experimental mindset evident in his public projects (gharbat.github.io) and OpenChatAI work. Notably, he pivots quickly between deep technical execution and product strategy, turning complex rule- and model-based systems into reliable, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Forensics, Digital Forensics at Dublin City University
BCs Computer science, BCs Computer science at University of Jordan
English, Arabic