Zouhair is a serial entrepreneur with an academic past and an infectious success drive.

For his EE PhD, Zouhair researched novel video coding algorithms that reduce compression computations by 90% on mobile devices.

He went on to build an online retail company (enamora.com) and brought it to several million in revenue before the exit. Aside from success, he also took away expertise on women's underwear, so ask for fashion advice.

At Keepsafe, Zouhair contributes code, image processing expertise and thought leadership in the privacy space.

“I'd rather be surfing” is his preferred motto but you'll find him at the office more often than at the beach. Zouhair drinks Beck's but other beers will also do.

Philipp competes to win — in Sailing and in Startups and came to the Bay Area to compete in the world's best environment for both.

Descending from a family of entrepreneurs, Philipp has been working on startups ever since graduating in Computer Science. His academic research was in graph visualization algorithms to make data useful.

After that he started ViCommerce (vicommerce.com) a company building video players that allowed people to click and buy items in a video. Luckily he never had to use any of Zouhair's codecs.

At Keepsafe he spends most of his time in the Android code base. Philipp ships code like a machine but if you're looking for a way to distract him from software, just ask about Sailing. He'll talk your ear off. Philipp is Bavarian, drinks beer and has never missed a day of Oktoberfest in his life.

Jeff is the ever sought-after unicorn designer with a skill-set ranging from ideation to software implementation.

He is a graduate of Stanford's Design program and previously has done work for Google, Dropbox, YouTube and many other Silicon Valley startups.

With a background in art and product design, his vocation now is to create intuitive and delightful experiences. His process involves a lot of sketching and paper prototyping. Jeff's mad coding skills let him implement all his designs for web or for the Android client. Our engineers just love this.

If you ask nicely, he'll draw you a robot.

Melanie has high standards for receiving excellent customer support and a passion for delivering the same!

Melanie is a transplant from southern California, calling the East Bay home now. With a varied professional background, Melanie has found her passion in tech start-ups.

Melanie is crazy about fitness and healthy lifestyle and enjoys daily bootcamp classes. A self proclaimed "tequila snob" you may see her playing on her bocce ball team with a cocktail in hand or on the sidelines of whichever sport her super athletic daughters may be playing!

Laura defines and implements projects that scale our organization. She comes to us with a background in Data Analytics, Project Management, Film Development and Production, and Non-Profit Fundraising.

Laura is California born and raised, with a few expat stints in Japan. Living in San Francisco, she’s been swept up by the contagious tech energy. Laura moonlights as a group fitness instructor and enjoys mystery travel vacations with her husband and parenting hacks like potty-training her infant at 5-weeks old.

Rustin is a cross-platform mobile coding machine.

Rustin is from SoCal, near Laguna Beach, but not like the TV show. He likes good, clean coding, on Android, iOS, and everything else. Rustin enjoys tackling any and all problems with code, but has a soft spot for computer vision.

When away from the keyboard, Rustin likes hiking in national parks, running marathons, cycling centuries, crossing words, and powerlifting. Arnold is Rustin's biggest fan. Rustin's crossword expertise has given him an extensive vocabulary of vowel heavy words, which he uses to name software projects.

Komel is a quiet rainmaking professional.

Komel is Californian through and through. Having spent tons of time in NorCal, she did a sting in L.A. before moving to San Francisco where she’s been living for many years now.

Komel practices mindfulness and meditation and she aspires to guide others on this path in the future.This means that she is silent for very long periods of time. She assures us that this won’t be causing communication issues though.

When she’s not busy making more money for Keepsafe, Komel likes to travel. She’s been to many countries in South America and Europe and throughout that, Komel’s favorite place is Berlin which proves that she has excellent taste. One day, she’ll live and work there.

Jessica is curly inside and out.

Jessica works on marketing and is Keepsafe’s first extrovert. She joined Keepsafe after founding her own startup, Rolltape (#RIP), an audio messaging app for strengthening relationships. Jessica spent nearly eight years at Google leading support for Google Docs, running house ads for Google marketing, and heading marketing for Helpouts.

Jessica is a native Virginian who has also spent time living in France and India. She studied English and French in college and has an MBA, which makes her the queen of the 2x2. She likes staying warm, hosting dinner parties, reading fiction, and seeing live music at the Fillmore and the Greek Theatre. She’s lived in a cement bunker in the Bay Area for the last decade with her husband where they raise their three feminist children.

Jen works on user experience problems with a creative problem-solving mindset.

Jen grew up on the east coast in Fairfax Virginia. She comes from a large, kid-fiesta family, including four brothers and two sisters.

While studying graphic design at George Mason University her friends introduced her to the world of web design. She headed west after landing her first design role in San Francisco and has remained on the west coast ever since.

Outside of design, Jen is an avid hiker and spends her time trekking through the North Bay and in the mountains near Portland. She has a miniature pinscher named after her dream car, Tesla. If she lived in prehistoric times, she would like to be an underwater translucent sea creature so that she could explore the depths of the ocean.

Kailey is a Bay Area gal through and through.

Kailey spent a few years in the southern part of the State for college, but after earning her undergrad in Econ, she promptly moved back up North. With the exception of a year in the South of France and two in West Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer, she’s been in this lovely city ever since.

When she’s not handling Finance for Keepsafe, you can probably find her in a Science class completing the prerequisites to apply to Nursing School. She has a love/hate relationship with overpriced, fancy coffee, and loves scuba diving, traveling to faraway places, seeing live music, and thrift-store scores. ISFJ; Enneagram 2; Hufflepuff.

Mike is a swim in the middle of the river type of guy.

After graduating from UC Berkeley, Mike was real excited to move to Jacksonville, Florida, the city he ranked the lowest in placement preferences during his TLP program. His $500 a month 2bd/2ba apartment could only lure him for so long, before he came crawling back to the Bay Area. On his way back, he managed to survive a cross-country road trip in a BMW, with only three speeding tickets.

On weekends, Mike likes to play basketball, watch action movies where Brad Pitt punches people in the face, and venture outside the city. He especially enjoys hitting up Tahoe in the winter as he loves winter sports, as long as it’s snowboarding. Skiing has too many moving parts, and he was scarred by cross country as a child.

Has quite a bit of hats. Dad hats.

Brian is a true East Bay native - born, raised and currently living in Fremont. He once ventured to upstate New York to study investment banking at Cornell. Not only did he experience snow for the first time, but it was at school where he realized building stuff is way cooler than making money. That decision led him to multiple opportunities at various startups as well as building his own applications.

When he’s not building, Brian enjoys producing rap songs, playing basketball, spending time with his Yorkie and traveling. He just completed a European tour last spring that included his favorite place on the globe thus far: Barcelona. With a few more international trips on the horizon, Brian is excited to keep those passport stamps flowing!

Alicia surrounds herself with unicorns; people and products alike.

After spending her childhood in the quiet suburbs of New Jersey and Texas Alicia has been drawn to big city culture and history as an adult. She first left the yellow fields of Dallas to study at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After school she migrated west and surfed the first tech wave in San Francisco. She later spent a few years in the Big Apple before returning to the city by the bay for good in 2009.

Alicia, once an avid hiker and wine country hobbyist, now spends her weekends with her two kids, swimming in pools of sprinkles at the Museum of Ice Cream. Alicia enjoys filling up on sushi and ginger based cocktails. She accessorizes with scarves, scarves and more scarves. Her Harlem Shake skills are on point, as that is her life’s theme song. Just don’t ask her to name the artist. Alicia has no problem scaling products but quizzing her on music is another story.

Knows all the hidden hiking trails with no names.

Tim found himself working at Muir Woods National Park as a Park Ranger fresh out of High School. For two years he gave tours, carried a life-saving radio and experienced all of North Bay’s hiking hidden gems. After a few years Tim realized being a Park Ranger was his ideal job. For retirement. He packed up his bags and exchanged the redwoods for city dwelling where he’s resided for the better part of ten years and counting.

Tim learned the ins and outs of app store optimization and product growth while working for several startups. A recent stint took him abroad to Taiwan where his hobbies had been limited to Friday night KTV. Now that he’s back stateside he’s excited to get back to his favorite pastimes of rock climbing, BBQing, road biking and collecting hot sauces.

Anne is the keeper of Keepsafe's safe, and ensures the proverbial "machine" runs smoothly.

Anne is a 4th generation Californian, who has lived in San Francisco since before Zouhair and Philipp were born.

At Keepsafe, Anne is responsible for all things except engineering and for keeping Zouhair and Philipp entertained with arcane business processes.

Aside from working with Silicon Valley startup companies, Anne enjoys third world travel, spending time with her family, and cruising in her custom VW bus.

Lukasz is a developer with passion from his youth.

Lukasz got interested in computers while in high school. Soon he switched from gaming into programming by taking part in algorithmic contests.

Now as a software engineer he has an eye for performancematters. He jokes he likes to make code just as fast as he drives his motorbike. He is interested in intersection of computer science and cognitive science.

More hacker than painter... but still.

Lukasz tinkered with computers early on in his life with intensity which lead him into software engineering career. He believes that engineering can be reconciled with art resulting in beautiful and simple solutions.

While away from keyboard he reads, learns to play classical guitar and travels backpacking through bizarre destinations.

Engin is an iOS dev who'll start selling used cars if this tech thing turns out to be a fad.

Originally from Istanbul, Engin has been growing roots in Berlin for over a decade now. Once a budding academic working on multi-camera video compression, Steve Jobs made him drop out of the PhD program when he announced the App Store.

Engin built the first translator app for iOS in 2008 and was sucked in deeper and deeper into the craze. He even flew to NYC for a weekend to pick up the original iPad on day 1 so he could test his PDF annotation tool on real hardware. Today, he organizes UIKonf, probably the second largest iOS developer conference in the world after WWDC.

When he’s not building Keepsafe’s European presence or tinkering on apps, he flies gliders near Berlin and fixes up old cars. One day he’ll have enough saved up for his dream Porsche.

Swiss-knife generalist dev who's moonlighting as a global electric bike tycoon to afford a Tesla Model X.

Born and raised in Russia, 8-year-old Sergey was already building his own games on a ZX Spectrum since real games were hard to come by. His career took him from Spectrum to Android over a convoluted path via Windows PCs, online games and automotive embedded computers. Apparently all navigation systems built into recent german cars run his code. This alone is a reason to buy a german car, or maybe not…

When he's not making or playing games, he likes to travel all over the globe in the highest difficulty setting: just buy plane tickets and improvise the rest. He also claims to hold an electric bike speed record: over 65mph/110kph on a bike made in his own shed. In his time left over from building our Android apps, traveling the world and being a dare-devil on shoddy electric bikes, he's running a web shop selling electric bike conversion kits. He needs the side-income: he placed an order for one of the first Tesla Model 3's.

Reuben joined Keepsafe because he likes his privacy. He is from a small town in New Zealand, the Maori name of which can be translated as plenty of food. He grew up next to a 90-mile beach where he raced his three-wheeled land-yacht. He majored in physics but ended up spending most of the time in the library reading books about films during his time at University of Auckland. He is so into films that he built one of the most full-featured pro videography apps, Guerrilla Filmmaker, as a side project. This little side project has already been featured by Apple several times! Before he discovered iOS he helped build the embedded software for a big bike-sharing provider in London. In the time left from building apps and playing soccer, he either watches movies or goes whitewater kayaking in the French Alps.

Marius began as a self-taught programmer in his teens and was soon working at startups before he had even finished his CS degree. He started as a full-stack web developer but later moved into iOS. That said, he still loves to work on both the front and back side of client development.

Marius is excited about refining workflows and letting the machines handle the tedious tasks. In that vein, he’s been a major contributor to CocoaPods over the years, most recently adding Swift support to the project.

Loving to learn, share and travel, Marius frequently contributes to open source and has given talks on his work around the world. In his free time, Marius is an avid athlete who is passionate about nutrition as well. If he’s not out on a run or preparing a balanced and beautiful meal, you may well find him hiking, windsurfing or on a rock wall.

Erik is a Newport Beach lifeguard from Southern California who has been calling Berlin home for over four years. He studied physics at UC Berkeley and worked as a paralegal in the Bay Area for a while before embracing his inner nerd and starting iOS development. Which turned out to be great decision: besides working at startups like Snapfish, Klara and EyeEm, he also built LineUp as a side project, which ended up getting acquired by Keepsafe recently. Whatever time is left from making LineUp the best of its class, he spends on exploring places around Europe with his fiancee. He loves a good IPA and breakfast burritos, which are both very hard come by in Berlin, which led him to start making his own burritos. He burns the burrito calories by regularly jogging but cannot figure out why some people enjoy running.

Ilke is a real artist, from pleasing customers to making the tastiest Sake Sushi.

Ilke comes from and lives in magnificent Istanbul. He studied as a Master in Design and Tech, in Estonia and Finland.

His professional background includes several design projects for museums, local brands and photography projects. Besides his role as Keepsafe’s Turkish customer support agent, he trains the new customer support team members.

Ilke is simply a creative person who enjoys photography, traveling, building new stuff, cooking and loves sports especially running, kite surfing and snowboarding. He is an expert in making and drinking coffee, and in his free time, you might find him making home made beers in the basement or outside enjoying motorbike road trips.

Mj is the support agent for Korean and Chinese customers, she resides in the Pacific Northwest and loves to eat, sleep and her cats.

Julie is Keepsafe's resident Russian expert. Not only does she help keep customers happy and problem free, she's been known to help keep the San Francisco team from spiralling out of control when things get hectic.

Fabian is the support team lead and a Computer Science student from Paraguay who doesn't mind getting his hands dirty with the trickiest support tickets.

When he grows up, Fabian wants to be a developer. Until then he does his best to treat Keepsafe users like family. His American / Paraguayan dream is to travel around the world (in fact, anywhere outside Paraguay). He just needs to work on being less afraid to fly.

Su has a background in computer engineering, she is a native from Jordan currently living in cold Poland. She loves all animals but has a special spot in her heart for horses and cats.

When she’s not providing top notch support for her Keepsafe users in the Middle East, you’ll find her cycling, swimming or discovering new places and hobbies with her husband.

Renate is the ultimate problem solver who's always right on time!

Renate is a native German with varied professional experiences including banker and consultant. She's been calling California home for the last 20 years.

With a teaching and Foreign Language background, Renate has high standards for ensuring a pleasing Keepsafe experience in German and English.

When she is not busy helping our users, you can find her organizing the best backyard parties in town, hiking in national parks, trying out new recipes, or traveling around. She loves the ocean, her husband, and her two daughters.

Clara is our amazing Italian customer support agent. When not delivering top-notch customer service, she likes to relax by catching a movie, solving puzzles or doing a spot of yoga. She is very much a cat lover and enjoys nothing better than spending time with her feline friends.

David is a Freelancer in the IT industry. He currently lives in Morocco with his wife and son, and is our resident App Lock specialist. He loves sports, especially Soccer and playing Fifa games on Playstation with his friends. He will also never miss a chance to go to the beach.

Mutsumi helps take care of Keepsafe's japanese speaking customers while living in beautiful Scotland.

Duna is the customer support agent for Hebrew speakers at Keepsafe. She is also a media producer and a marketing consultant who loves working with startups and small businesses.

Get her outside in sunny weather with good food, wine, and friends after some kind of physical activity, and you will win her heart. She currently calls Vermont home.