Atif Javed

Overview

Atif Javed is co founder of Tarjimly leading the growth and business development efforts while leveraging his experience as a product manager at Oracle in service and messaging channels. At the height of the Syrian refugee crisis in 2015 he graduated from MIT with a bachelor s degree in materials science and engineering with a focus in economics. However his proudest moments at MIT were volunteering for refugee and immigrant families in Boston often as an interpreter. He later joined a San Francisco digital media startup AJ as a data product manager because of its compelling coverage of the refugee crisis and now firmly believes there is more the world can do than sit and watch. He was awarded the MIT Martin Luther King Jr. Service Award was named one of Silicon Valley Business Journal's 40 Under 40 and was featured in Forbes and TechCrunch after launching Tarjimly with Aziz in Y Combinator.