Hamza Khawaja

Hamza Khawaja is a tech professional with a diverse background in product management, machine learning, and entrepreneurship. He is currently working on a stealth project with Josh Payne and Eric Schmidt from Google.1

Career Highlights

Product Management Experience::

• Founding Head of Product at a stealth company (June 2022 - Present)1
• Product Management Fellow at Kleiner Perkins (July 2020 - Present)1
• Product Manager, Machine Learning at Ripcord (July 2020 - June 2022)1
• Product Manager at Salesforce Einstein Machine Learning Modeling team (2019)1
• Product Manager, Marketplace Ops at Google (2018)1

Entrepreneurship::

• CEO and Co-founder of hadith.fyi, which was acquired by Working With Muslims (April 2020 - July 2022)1

Technical Roles::

• Machine Learning on the Model 3 Team at Tesla (2017 - 2018)1
• Software Engineer at Microsoft, propelland, and TutorSync1

Education and Achievements

Hamza studied at the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in Computer Science and Data Science.15 His notable achievements include:

• Kleiner Perkins Product Fellowship recipient (1 of 14 from 3,000 applicants)1
• Highest Intern Rating at Google (Summer 2018)1
• Multiple awards in UC Berkeley Product Design and Product Management competitions1

Skills and Languages

Hamza is proficient in multiple languages, including:

• English (professional working proficiency)
• Hindi (professional working proficiency)
• Urdu (professional working proficiency)
• Spanish (limited working proficiency)
• Arabic (elementary proficiency)1

Personal Interests

Hamza is a Muslim and has shared insights about Ramadan on his LinkedIn profile.4 He has also been involved in writing articles about technology's impact on society and time management for a site with 30 million monthly views.1

Hamza is known for his willingness to help others in their career journeys, offering to meet for coffee with those seeking internships or job opportunities in the Bay Area.23