Naji Bekhazi
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CTO & EVP of Engineering
Palo Alto, California, United States
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CTO & EVP of EngineeringBlockstreamJan 2025 - Current (1 year 9 months)Thrilled to join Blockstream, a leader in blockchain technology and financial innovation. Blockstream's mission is to advance the Bitcoin ecosystem and enable decentralized finance.- Executive Vice President of Engineering, Products, & OperationsFANVESTORFeb 2020 - Jan 2025 (5 years)Oversee all aspects of operations, engineering, and product development for FINRA-regulated, equity crowdfunding and celebrity-engagement platform that empowers fans to invest in celebrity-related businesses and to take part in exclusive product launches and charity events. Oversee team of developers, QA and IT engineers in all aspects of designing, developing, and administering company’s infrastructure, backend, web and mobile apps, including marketplace storefronts. Engendered innovation by pioneering development of a state-of-the-art platform that includes:
• A feature-packed and mobile friendly content publishing module to allow the creation of content-rich highly customized investment campaigns and e-commerce storefronts.
• A - WCo-Founder & PresidentWasche IncFeb 2016 - Dec 2019 (3 years 11 months)Co-founded, built from the ground up and managed operations of pioneering on-demand ecofriendly automotive car wash service provider that became the largest mobile carwash in Northern California. Assembled, guided and coached team of high-caliber engineers through full life cycle application development. Built sale channels and formulated / implemented digital and traditional marketing strategies. Interfaced with angel groups and investors in raising seed rounds, presenting quarterly progress reports and facilitating annual investor meetings.
• Orchestrated full life cycle design and development of an Uber-like dispatch platform with technician and user apps for Android and iOS, along with dashboard for monitoring field technicians; bu - Vice President, EngineeringSynopsys IncMay 2011 - Feb 2016 (4 years 10 months)Directed the development of Synopsys Custom Compiler, a complete front-to-back analog mixed-signal design platform for cell-based and custom block designs. Managed multi-site engineering and management team of 250+ operating across six countries. Guided full product development and release cycle, and defined / maintained product roadmaps. Collaborated with account teams in managing sales strategies and customer interactions.
• Formulated and implemented development and quality processes which resulted in the group receiving the highest Process Maturity Index score at Synopsys and being recognized with multiple process and quality awards.
• Spearheaded two company acquisitions, assimilating staff into organization, implementing pro - Group Director, R&DSynopsys IncOct 2002 - May 2011 (8 years 8 months)Directed the development of Synopsys CATS, the industry de facto standard software for mask manufacturing, inspection, metrology, and direct-write on wafer. Managed multi-site engineering and management team of 70+ operating across 3 countries. Guided full product development and release cycle, and defined / maintained product roadmaps. Collaborated with account teams in managing sales strategies and customer interactions.
• Integral in realizing 85% market share after successfully re-building and growing the team, spearheading development of a new scalable fracturing algorithm and several state-of-the-art features which surpassed any existing solution on the market.
• Formulated and implemented development and quality processes w - VDirector of R&DVolera IncJan 2000 - Sep 2002 (2 years 9 months)Established and oversaw 40-member Content Networking Solution group responsible for development of Volera’s media streaming services, content distribution, and media accelerator products. Designed and developed several Java-based web applications that enabled enterprises to remotely configure and manage networks of caching appliances, and to manage and optimize content delivery across these networks.
- JCo-Founder and Vice President of EngineeringJustOn IncJun 1999 - Dec 1999 (7 months)Built from the ground up the first-ever cloud file-sharing platform, that was met with phenomenal levels of popularity. Designed and developed the company’s distributed file system for storing, managing, and publishing files on the cloud. Developed the award winning web interface in Dynamic HTML and JavaScript. Managed the overall operation of the service which attracted 5M users within 1 month of launch and generated the most traffic at data center after Yahoo. Negotiated sale of company within 6 months of inception.
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- BSEE, MSCE, Electrical Engineering, Computer EngineeringSyracuse University