Draft:Amjad Masad

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Amjad Masad is a Jordanian-American programmer and entrepreneur. He is best known for co-founding Replit, an online IDE supporting various social features. He formerly worked at Yahoo, Codecademy, and Facebook,^[1] where he worked on projects such as React Native and Babel. In addition, he maintains a personal blog and occasionally participates in interviews and conferences.

Amjad Fawzi Masad was born to Fawzi Masad, a Syrian engineer, and an Algerian mother in Amman, Jordan. According to Masad, his family was originally from Palestine but left in 1948.^[2] He started coding at age 5, and had been interested in business since his teenage years.^[3]

Masad attended Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) for 6 years, where he frequently skipped classes to build software. This led to him being removed from his calculus class twice, a requirement for his graduation. He eventually hacked into PSUT's network, where he was able to change his grades to pass this class.^[4] Upon learning of this, the school's administration offered him to waive any punishment for his actions and collaborated with him to fix parts of the network.^[5]

After becoming a citizen of the United States in 2011,^[6] Masad worked at Yahoo! from April to November of that year.^[7] From November 2011 to October 2013, Masad worked at Codecademy. There, he implemented his open source online console jqConsole into the Codecademy project^[8] and wrote tutorials. While at Codecademy, he started to develop jsrepl, an online IDE that would later develop into Replit.^[9][10]

In 2024, he was featured on an episode of The Tucker Carlson Show.^[11]