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Co-Founder

Zahraa Alkhaleef

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

RoleCTO & Co-Founder
FocusEngineering & Systems
EducationUC Berkeley
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About

Zahraa builds the technical systems that make CrewLink work. She studied computer science at UC Berkeley, where she got interested in how marketplaces fail when they treat participants as interchangeable units. Most platforms optimize for transaction volume. She wanted to build something that optimized for whether people actually had a good experience.

At CrewLink, she leads engineering and owns the matching system. Her focus is on making technology invisible: when the platform works well, nobody notices it. They just notice that finding help is easy and work shows up when they need it.

She is a collector of obscure programming languages and believes the best code is the code you delete. Her teams ship often and refactor constantly.

Focus Areas

Where Zahraa spends most of her time

Platform Architecture

Designing systems that scale gracefully as we grow, without accumulating technical debt.

Matching Algorithms

Building the models that connect the right worker to the right job in real time.

Security & Trust

Making sure user data stays protected and verification systems work as intended.

Want to build with Zahraa?

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