About
Chehir Dhaouadi is a software engineer with experience building telecommunications and VoIP infrastructure across the Middle East and North Africa, and has co-developed a mobile application that reached over 200,000 downloads. He has also deployed machine learning infrastructure for educational access and co-authored research on large language model fine-tuning.
Founder at Callab AIYC X26
Intro paths
Chehir went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Callab AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Chehir can intro founders to Callab AI's investors below.
Callab AI's investors · 2
Co-founders at Callab AI
Experience
- Callab AI (YC P26)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — present
- ClusterlabCo-Founder & CTO2022 — 2026Tunisia
- ReedzCo-Founder2020 — 2022
- FivePoints The Talent PoolChief Technology Officer2019 — 2020Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
- FivePoints The Talent PoolTechnical Lead2017 — 2019Tunis, Tunisia
- Tunisian Entrepreneurship and Spin-Off AssociationVice President Of Technology (Voluntary)2017 — 2019Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
- Tunisian Entrepreneurship and Spin-Off AssociationIT & Team lead (Voluntary)2016 — 2018Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
- Vurbis InteractiveRemote FullStack Developer2018 — 2019Netherlands
- Go My CodeInstructor2017La Marsa, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
- iLi-StudiosFull Stack Developer2015 — 2017Mannouba Governorate, Tunisia
- UNPBSoftware Developer2011 — 2015Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
- YB SystemsSoftware and Network administrator2014 — 2015Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
Skills & more
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HTML5PHPC#SQLMySQLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)C++AndroidTeachingTraining & DevelopmentRedisKubernetesLanguages Arabic · English · French
- JavaScript (Intermediate) Certificate — HackerRank
- Node.js (Intermediate) Certificate — HackerRank
- MTA: HTML5 Application Development Fundamentals — Microsoft
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Chehir Dhaouadi?
- Chehir Dhaouadi is a software engineer with experience building telecommunications and VoIP infrastructure across the Middle East and North Africa, and has co-developed a mobile application that reached over 200,000 downloads. He has also deployed machine learning infrastructure for educational access and co-authored research on large language model fine-tuning.
- Where does Chehir Dhaouadi work?
- Chehir Dhaouadi is Founder of Callab AI.
- What companies did Chehir Dhaouadi found?
- Chehir Dhaouadi founded Callab AI.
- Where did Chehir Dhaouadi go to school?
- Chehir Dhaouadi studied at Y Combinator (P26); Higher Institute of Technological Studies (ISET SILIANA) (Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology).
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