# Tareq Aljaber

> Tareq Aljaber is the founder and CEO of Averroes.ai, a San Mateo company building no-code AI visual inspection and virtual metrology software for semiconductor and industrial manufacturing. Before founding Averroes in 2021, he spent more than two decades shipping products used by millions at Adobe, Microsoft, Atlassian, and Samsung NEXT, including work that helped scale Adobe Flash and the launch of Microsoft's Visual Studio App Center. He now focuses on making AI-powered defect detection accessible to quality and reliability engineers who have no data science background.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Averroes.ai
- **Organizations:** Averroes.ai
- **Nationality:** Jordanian-American
- **Education:** Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, University of Jordan, MBA, Business / Marketing, California State University
- **Known for:** Founded Averroes.ai (2021), a no-code AI visual inspection and virtual metrology platform for manufacturing, Helped scale Adobe Flash toward roughly one billion users, Launched Microsoft's Visual Studio App Center

## Career timeline

- **2000** — Product marketing / web developer at Sakher International
- **2002-2005** — Software product support application engineer at Asyst Technologies (semiconductor)
- **2005-2013** — Roles at Adobe including Flash engineer, quality engineering manager, and product marketing manager for the web segment
- **2013** — Co-founder and product manager at Klippings Inc.
- **2015-2017** — Senior product marketing manager at Atlassian
- **2017** — Senior product marketing manager for developer tools and languages at Microsoft; launched Visual Studio App Center
- **2018** — Head of product marketing at MissingLink.ai
- **2021** — Founded Averroes.ai with Omar Altamimi

## Achievements

- Founded Averroes.ai (2021), a no-code AI visual inspection and virtual metrology platform for manufacturing
- Helped scale Adobe Flash toward roughly one billion users
- Launched Microsoft's Visual Studio App Center
- Drove adoption of Atlassian's enterprise developer tools
- Speaker at SEMICON West 2025 and the Vision Spectra Inspection Summit 2025
- Built products used by millions across Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian, and Samsung over a 23-year career

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Presented at SEMICON West 2025 on AI detection of unknown defects in wafer and photomask inspection and on accessible AI for visual testing.
- **2025** — Averroes.ai expanded into solar panel and photomask inspection use cases with webinars on reducing false rejects.

## Links

- Website: https://averroes.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taljaber/

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