Biography

Assaf is the CTO and co-founder of Riskified. He oversees technical strategy and innovation, leading a team of engineers and data scientists in building one of the world's best or a leading  eCommerce solutions. Under his leadership, Riskified’s offering has grown from a single flagship chargeback guarantee product to a suite of end-to-end solutions aimed at making eCommerce secure and seamless. He brings nearly two decades of experience developing robust systems with machine learning algorithms and intelligent UIs for risk management applications. Before co-founding Riskified, Assaf led the development of complex predictive algorithms used for crowdsourcing risk analysis at BillGuard. He also was selected to be a research scientist for the Ambient Intelligence group at MIT’s Media Lab.