Amjad Masad is Co-Founder and CEO at Replit, an AI-powered software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. Born in Amman, Jordan, Masad holds a computer science degree from Princess Sumaya University for Technology and immigrated to the United States in 2011.

Masad was a tech lead on the JavaScript infrastructure team at Facebook, where he helped build open-source tools like Babel, Jest, and React Native packager. He was also a founding engineer at Codecademy and briefly worked at Yahoo.

Masad has angel invested in 50 startups and serves on one company board. He is known for coining Amjad's Law, which suggests the return on learning basic coding doubles every six months, and advocates that AI will transform software development from traditional coding to natural language prompts.

Replit has grown to over 30 million users globally and raised $522 million across 7 funding rounds, reaching a $3 billion valuation in September 2025. The company pioneered vibe coding with its AI Agent that turns plain English into working applications.

Under Masad's leadership, Replit achieved unicorn status in 2023 and powers over 25 billion monthly visits to apps hosted on its platform. The company processes 3 million sustained read/write disk operations per second and runs 1 million containers concurrently, democratizing software creation for the next billion developers.