We believe that every country should have the opportunity to participate in technology innovation.

Core Team

Taylor Sihavong
President & Co-founder @ Code.X
Stanford University

Alex Fu
Partnerships & Co-founder @ Code.X
Co-founder @ Illumix, Stanford University

Ayesha Ebrahim
Curriculum @ Code.X
Lyft • University of Waterloo

Aaiza Khaled
Alumni Relations @ Code.X
Unit21 • University of Waterloo

Jacqueline Lin
Program Coordination @ Code.X
Ironclad • Dropbox • Twitter • Stanford University

Yasoob Rasheed
Program Coordination & Curriculum @ Code.X
Alchemy • Flexport • University of Chicago

Kate Rose
Program Coordination & Curriculum @ Code.X
Design for America • Tulane University

Romeo Umaña
Recruitment @ Code.X
Stanford University

Advisory Council

Theodore H. Kattouf
US Ambassador • President/CEO, Amideast

Samah Abuoun Hamad DBA, PMP, MBA
Paltel Group Foundation

Board of Directors

Jessie Duan
Co-founder • Roblox • Stanford University

Afeef Ahmed
Amazon • Cisco Systems • Stanford University

Taylor Sihavong
President & Co-founder @ Code.X
Stanford University

Alex Fu
Partnerships & Co-founder @ Code.X
Co-founder @ Illumix, Stanford University

Past Core Team Members

Dina Benayad-Cherif
Replit • Apple • Case Western Reserve University

Google • eBay • Stanford University

Yousef AbuHashem
Stanford University

Claire Zhang
TikTok • LinkedIn • Santa Clara University

Abdallah AbuHashem
Co-founder @ Masref • University of Oxford • Stanford University

Sierra Kaplan-Nelson
Empower • Stanford University

Shahpar Mirza
Novata • Stanford University

Ben Gaiarin
Google • Stanford University

Neil Singh
Prolific Machines • Stanford University

Cooper Raterink
Hebbia AI • Cohere • Stanford University

Matthew Gonzalez
Co-founder • Stanford University

Volunteers

Code.X is graciously supported by its network of 100+ volunteers, who crucially support U.S. operations and return each summer to teach with our programs.