Cofounder & CTO at Jooba
Burhan Drak Sibai
I’ve worked at early-stage startups on everything from low-level infra to GTM strategy. More recently, I built the entire data infra stack at Essential AI, co-authored a paper on LLM reasoning, and was the first forward deployed engineer at Resolve AI. I studied engineering at UWaterloo, built and sold a six-figure applied AI project in just one month, was a finalist in the Syrian Math Olympiad, have lived in 12 countries and speak 4 languages.
Questions & Answers
Can you share a distinctive achievement or highlight from your career?
I co-authored a paper with Ashish Vaswani, co-creator of the Transformer.
How is your team uniquely positioned to solve the problem you're tackling?
In our market, the perfect team needs to have the domain expertise to know what to build, the AI background to know how to build it, and the distribution advantage to effectively go to market. Mark and I are exactly that team.
