About
Syrus Akbary is founder and CEO of Wasmer. He previously served as CTO at uSpeak and Try.com, and has built open-source projects including a GraphQL library for Python.
Founder at WasmerYC S19
Intro paths
YC
Syrus went through Y Combinator (Summer 2019) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Experience
- Y CombinatorWasmer - YCS19current2019 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- WasmerFounder & CEOcurrent2018 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- GrapheneFounder & CEOcurrent2018 — presentSan Francisco, California
- Try.comCTO2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- Affirm, Inc.Full Stack Engineer2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- Chegg Inc.Senior Software Engineer2014 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- uSpeak Ltd.CTO2013Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area
- uSpeak Ltd.Software architect2013Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area
- uSpeak Ltd.Frontend Lead Manager2012 — 2013Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area
Skills & more
PhoneGap1CoffeeScript1Big Data1Web Analytics1SEO2Mathematical Programming19Redis1Programming16Mathematics14Agile Methodologies6Metodologías ágiles2Programación3
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PythonCSS3HTML 5JavaScriptRESTVagrantLinuxGitNoSQLProblem SolvingMongoDBElasticSearchLanguages Español · Inglés
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Syrus Akbary?
- Syrus Akbary is founder and CEO of Wasmer. He previously served as CTO at uSpeak and Try.com, and has built open-source projects including a GraphQL library for Python.
- Where does Syrus Akbary work?
- Syrus Akbary is Founder of Wasmer.
- What companies did Syrus Akbary found?
- Syrus Akbary founded Wasmer.
- Where did Syrus Akbary go to school?
- Syrus Akbary studied at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Licenciado, Matemáticas, Computación, Optimización).
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