Iba Masood

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States16 yrs experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

CEO of Optimal AI, leading innovative AI solutions.
Co-founded multiple startups with significant impact.
Expert in engineering and security-focused technology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with expertise in AI-driven solutions and project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

EngineeringSecurityProject ManagementRecruitingDigital MarketingFinancial AnalysisResearchRisk Analysis

Other Skills

complianceAIcode reviewGitHubvulnerabilitiesbugsdata modelsproduct developmentcareers platformrecruiting algorithmsunbiased recruitingdigital strategyPRdigital campaignsfinancial models

About

If you’re in engineering or security, I’d love to help make your job easier with Optibots, security forward code review agents. Currently tinkering away at Optimal AI to build delightful and productive agents.

Experience

16 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Optimal ai

Co-founder & CEO

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Optimal AI is building agents with domain expertise in engineering, compliance & security, with Optibot as our first flagship agent.
Optibot is an agentic code reviewer built for fast-moving engineering teams dealing with AI-generated code and increasing security and compliance risks. It installs as a GitHub app in under a minute and reviews pull requests with human-level reasoning, identifying vulnerabilities and bugs Copilot often misses.
Customers include MongoDB, Prometric and Mpulse, where Optibot is streamlining reviews and enabling safer vibe coding. If your team is exploring how AI can help with the last mile of software delivery, I’d love to connect. We are proud to be backed by leading investors: Act One Ventures and Chingona Ventures.

engineeringcompliancesecurityAIcode reviewGitHub+2

Stealth

Co-founder and CEO

Sep 2024 – Jan 2025 · 4 mos · San Jose, California, United States

Tara.ai

Co-founder and CEO

Apr 2016 – Aug 2024 · 8 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Tara AI is lightning-fast project management that helps teams ship product, with tasks, sprints & docs tied to code. We believe the task is the ultimate unit of work and are building data models to extend the capabilities of project management. Our platform helps modern software teams manage and deliver across their product development lifecycle. 10,000+ workspaces and 45,000+ developers trust Tara AI to git ship done.
Backed by YCombinator, Aspect Ventures, Moment Ventures and Slack Fund.

project managementdata modelsproduct development

Gradberry

Co-Founder

Sep 2011 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Gradberry Middle East was the region's largest careers platform for students and fresh graduates to find internships and entry level roles. We started the platform with $200 from our college library, and eventually grew it to the largest platform for students in the region with over 650 universities represented.
Our research and work was featured in Wired, BBC and Huffington post for early work into recruiting algorithms and for using meritocratic, unbiased recruiting functions. We also won grants from MIT, Cartier, United Nations (ITU) for helping thousands of graduates find jobs and internships at companies like Standard Chartered and Google.

careers platformrecruiting algorithmsunbiased recruitingrecruiting

Edelman

Digital Account Executive

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Digital Account Executive for the acclaimed technology team at Edelman DABO. DABO & CO was a boutique PR and digital marketing firm that was eventually acquired by Edelman for their enterprise clientele and bespoke campaigns.
In this role, I executed digital strategy for regional technology and automotive accounts, including Cisco, Linksys, BMW and Mini Cooper. I was responsible for creating PR and digital campaigns viewed by hundreds of thousands of customers and prospects.

digital strategyPRdigital campaignsdigital marketing

Ge

Financial Analyst - Trainee in FP&A

Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 · 0 mo

I was the youngest person in the department during my time in financial planning and analysis. My most notable achievement at GE Healthcare was rebuilding the financial models for GE Healthcare MENA region, and designing macros & formulas to automate data entry in Excel & Hyperion.

financial modelsdata entry automationfinancial analysis

Dubai islamic bank

Risk Analyst Intern, DIB Capital

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos

Analyzed the financial statements of various banks and created reports on their credit conditions.
Assisted in process improvement methods of direct equity mandates.
Assessed underlying risk conditions of projects and various proposals. Consulted on whether the project should be accepted or rejected.

financial statements analysisprocess improvementrisk analysis

Mckinsey & company

Analyst

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr

Conducted primary research in Arabic with the Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi..
Analyzed survey results to discover trends, and evaluated key constraints to growth faced by SME businesses.
Identified potential solutions for business growth, for the McKinsey Quarterly

primary researchsurvey analysisresearch