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Co-founder and CTO at Nash
Aziz Alghunaim is the Co-founder and CTO of Nash, the autonomic logistics platform that unifies decisioning and execution across fleets, carriers, and fulfillment networks. Before Nash, Aziz built global payment and decision systems at Palantir Technologies. He also co-founded Tarjimly, a nonprofit that connects refugees with volunteer translators worldwide. A 2x founder, 2x Y Combinator alum, and MIT graduate, Aziz now leads Nash's engineering and product teams, building self-optimizing systems that make every routing, dispatch, and capacity decision a continuous, EBITDA-optimized call against the operator's objective.

The most sophisticated logistics operations in the world were not designed. They accreted. Our CTO on why Nash sends engineers into that terrain rather than abstracting around it, and what he took…

Every logistics operation has one person who holds it together: the one who remembers why that zone has a different SLA, who can tell by 7 a.m. which parts of the plan won’t hold. The constraint is…