Summary
Paul Kassar is a product leader and former full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building user-centered products for startups and mission-driven organizations. Currently VP of Product at Shanda, he blends technical fluency from software engineering and open-source work with an MBA from Georgetown to shape strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and launch features that scale. His background in mathematics and hands-on development informs a data-driven approach to product decisions and algorithmic thinking—skills he applied building social matching algorithms at SINGA and AI-enhanced HR features at Vasitum. Comfortable moving between code, research, and go-to-market execution, he has a track record of turning complex problems into pragmatic product solutions across healthcare, HRtech, and civic tech.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory, Partial differential equations, Probabilities, Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory, Partial differential equations, Probabilities at The University of Edinburgh
Grand Lycée Franco-Libanais Beyrouth
Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle de Londres
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business