Zain Allarakhia

Zain Allarakhia is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Pipe, a fintech company that provides a trading platform for recurring revenue.12 Here are some key details about his background and career:

Professional Experience

Allarakhia has a strong background in product development and data engineering.1 Prior to co-founding Pipe, he held several notable positions:

• Software Engineer at Plaid2
• Co-Founder and CTO at Instavest2
• Software Engineer at Braintree2
• Head of Product at Fair.com1
• CEO and Co-Founder of Skurt (acquired by Fair.com)1
• Co-founder of Beatdeck, an enterprise application for the music industry1

Skills and Expertise

Allarakhia has demonstrated expertise in various technical areas:

• Developing crawlers and data scraping algorithms
• Maintaining up-to-date databases
• Creating scoring models for predicting ticket sales and attendance statistics1

Education

Zain Allarakhia attended The Weber School and later Y Combinator.1

Role at Pipe

As CTO of Pipe, Allarakhia played a crucial role in building the company from scratch. Pipe has helped over 22,000 companies get financing and facilitates hundreds of millions of dollars in loans quarterly.3

However, in November 2022, Allarakhia, along with his co-founders Harry Hurst and Josh Mangel, stepped down from their executive roles at Pipe. This decision was made to bring in more experienced leadership as the company scaled up.34 Despite stepping down from his executive role, Allarakhia remains involved with Pipe as a Senior Advisor and at the board level.3

Zain Allarakhia's journey from a software engineer to co-founding a $2 billion fintech company demonstrates his technical prowess and entrepreneurial spirit in the financial technology sector.