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Founder and CEO, Replit
Amjad Masad is the founder and CEO of Replit, which combines software creation, execution and deployment in a hosted environment. He previously worked as a founding engineer at Codecademy and on JavaScript infrastructure at Facebook. Replit’s path from a browser programming environment to Ghostwriter and Agent reflects his focus on making software creation accessible to more people, including people who begin with natural-language instructions.
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Amjad Masad is the founder and CEO of Replit, which combines software creation, execution and deployment in a hosted environment. He previously worked as a founding engineer at Codecademy and on JavaScript infrastructure at Facebook. Replit’s path from a browser programming environment to Ghostwriter and Agent reflects his focus on making software creation accessible to more people, including people who begin with natural-language instructions.
- Organization
- Replit
- Company leadership
- CEO since April 2016, per filed career history
- Previous work
- Facebook; founding engineer at Codecademy
- Focus
- AI software creation and deployment
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Career, in context.
Selected research, leadership and career milestones, newest first.
Co-announces Replit Free Mode
Masad and Michele Catasta announced a new Agent mode and redesigned experience. The post describes Free Mode within subscriptions and usage limits, rather than unlimited free service.
Source: Masad and Catasta: Replit introduces Free Mode ↗Replit documents its early Agent rollout
Replit published its introduction to Agent, describing application creation, environment setup and deployment. The post says the launch occurred the previous week and labels access as early-stage software.
Source: Replit: Introducing Replit Agent ↗Co-announces Ghostwriter beta
Masad co-authored Replit’s Ghostwriter announcement, introducing machine-learning assistance for completion, generation, transformation and explanation of code inside its development environment, before the later Agent product.
Source: Replit: Ghostwriter AI and Complete Code Beta ↗Begins leading Replit as CEO
Masad’s career history, filed with the SEC in 2022, dates his Replit CEO tenure to April 2016, following engineering work at Facebook and Codecademy.
Source: Masad career history, filed with the SEC in 2022 ↗Joins Facebook
Masad’s filed career history dates his move to Facebook to October 2013. Replit’s biography describes his work there as overseeing the JavaScript infrastructure team.
Source: Masad career history, filed with the SEC in 2022 ↗Becomes a founding engineer at Codecademy
Masad’s career history dates his Codecademy engineering role to November 2011. Replit’s current biography identifies it as a founding-engineer position before his later Facebook work.
Source: Masad career history, filed with the SEC in 2022 ↗
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