Souren Khetcho
Co-Founder CEO at avo
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSouren Khetcho is a serial founder and technology leader with 12 years of experience building product- and mission-driven companies at the intersection of game development, data engineering, and cybersecurity. Currently CEO and Co-Founder of avo after serving as its CTO, he blends hands-on technical chops with operator instincts honed across startups and small businesses from Vocally and OpenAuto to a previously acquired agency. A former ethical pentester and infrastructure engineer with cybersecurity coursework from Harvard Online and a BASc in Computer Science from Simon Fraser, he brings security-first thinking to product and platform design. Based in Vancouver and active in the Web3 community as a Forbes Web3 Legacy member and Founder in Residence at Antler, he focuses on hard technical problems that advance civilization and improve everyday human experience. Notably, his background spans both creative game-dev sensibilities and data engineering rigor, enabling pragmatic systems that are secure, scalable, and engaging.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity at Harvard OnlineComputer Science Applied Sciences, Computer Science Applied Sciences at Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Arabic, Armenian
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Github Skills (61)
jam10
game-center10
browser-game10
css9
ton9
online-game9
obsidian9
crawler9
pico-88
react8
game-development8
multiplayer-game8
typescript8
javscript8
javascript8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Vortan/spellchecker
May 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
hwacha/entale
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
An open-world game with autonomous agents that the player can freely talk to using a robust language system.
Contributions:37 commits, 15 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 month
autonomousgameautonomous-agentsfreelyopen-world-game
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