Rashid Aziz
Founder & CEO at Basic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRashid Aziz is a founder and software leader with a decade of experience building consumer and infrastructure products from first principles. As Founder & CEO of Basic, he’s focused on infrastructure for personal computing and champions a user-owned web through both product and code. Previously he was the first engineer at Riya Collective and co-founded Hutsy (YC S19), where he led full-stack development, mobile apps, search, and backend automation for complex marketplace workflows. Comfortable across front-end, mobile, and serverless backends, Rashid has a track record of shipping production systems that simplify complicated domains like real estate and retail. He studied Integrated Digital Media at NYU and sharpened his startup craft at Y Combinator, blending design sensibility with engineering rigor. Less obvious: he repeatedly moves between founder and hands-on engineer roles, preferring to combine product leadership with active coding to drive direction and velocity.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Science - BS Integrated Digital Media, Bachelor of Science - BS Integrated Digital Media at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Github Skills (35)
storage9
indexeddb9
offline-storage9
react9
database8
javascript8
react-components7
material-ui7
material-design6
typescript6
env4
websql4
environment-variables4
social-media4
editable4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shpaces/shpaces
May 2019 - Apr 2020
A Productivity Tool for all your other Productivity Tools
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
productivity-toolproductivity-toolsproductivity
basicdb/basic-cli
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
cli for creating & managing basic.tech projects
Contributions:16 releases, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 4 months
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