Samrose Ahmed
Co-Founder at Matano (YC W23)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSamrose Ahmed is a software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building cloud-native systems, currently co-founder and CEO of Matano, a modern cloud-native SIEM backed by a high-performance security data lake. Before founding Matano (YC W23), he honed large-scale distributed systems skills at AWS, contributing to the Amazon API Gateway and related services. He blends product-minded leadership with deep implementation experience—moving from individual contributor roles to steering a startup through technical and go-to-market challenges. Trained as a mechanical engineer at Carnegie Mellon, he brings a systems-thinking approach uncommon in pure software founders. Based in Seattle, he focuses on scalable security telemetry and developer-friendly data platforms. Colleagues describe him as a builder who ships pragmatic, performance-oriented solutions under real-world constraints.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bronx High School of ScienceBachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (200)
python10
databases10
star-schema10
security10
apache-arrow10
olap10
svg10
parquet10
serverless10
cloud-native10
sql-query10
javascript10
aws-security10
cybersecurity10
data-lakehouse10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Samrose-Ahmed/CFD-Navier-Stokes
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
A collection of finite difference solutions in MATLAB building up to the Navier Stokes Equations.
Contributions:50 commits, 45 pushes in 3 days
finite-differencematlab
matanolabs/matano-website
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:241 commits, 1 PR, 100 pushes in 7 months
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