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Shady Alzayat - Founding Engineer in San Francisco, CA

Shady Alzayat

Executive full-stack engineering leader specializing in AI, cloud, and digital platforms

AppetierSan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, CA23 Years ExperienceExecutive Level

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Serial entrepreneur building appetier.com, an agentic restaurant marketing and ecommerce automation platform for restaurants. Previously raised for Atlas Mental Health and brings thoughtful fundraising perspective centered on investor alignment, GTM partnership, and vertical SaaS/SMB infrastructure expertise.

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Key Strengths

  • founded appetier.com, an agentic restaurant marketing and ecommerce automation platform
  • prior fundraising experience with Reach Capital for Atlas Mental Health
  • strong understanding of investor-founder alignment in vertical SaaS and automation
  • bootstrapped growth mindset using freemium and referral models
  • restaurant SaaS market knowledge
  • user feedback-driven idea validation
  • long-term entrepreneurial track record

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Experience

Founding EngineerAppetier · Mar 2025 – May 2026
VP of Software EngineeringTillster · Jul 2021 – Mar 2025
Head of EngineeringAtlas Mental Health · Nov 2019 – Nov 2020
VP of EngineeringSarment · Jul 2018 – Oct 2019
Developer Relations EngineerPowWow Mobile · Jan 2017 – May 2018
Sr Web DeveloperOpenVPN · Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
General ManagerClub Quarters · Jan 2012 – Nov 2014
C0-Founder and CTOBlade Runner Tools · Sep 2007 – Dec 2011
Sr Programmer/Analyst IIIUC San Francisco Medical Center · Apr 2004 – Sep 2009

Education

San Francisco State Universitybachelor, Philosophy

Languages

English

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Shady AlzayatExecutive full-stack engineering leader specializing in AI, cloud, and digital platforms