Waleed Latif
Co-Founder and CTO at Sim
2025Co-founder· Sim (YC X25)
Founder · since 2025Company
Sim (YC X25)
Role
Co-Founder and CTO
current
Stage
—
no public source
Raised
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no public source
Based
San Francisco, California, United States
current
Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
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Experience
Career
2025Sim (YC X25)
Co-founderCo-Founder and CTO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025 – Present
2023Amazon
Software Engineer · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2023 – 2024
2021UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Academic Intern for CS61C (Machine Structures) · 2021
2016Check Worldwide
Small Business Owner · 2016 – 2019
Bio
Waleed is the Co-Founder and CTO of Sim. Waleed studied CS and Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley, where he led engineering and publications for Neurotechnology at Berkeley. Before Sim, Waleed built the core backend infrastructure for Ring at Amazon, which today processes over 1M+ transactions per second.