The Keepsafe Manifesto

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.

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.

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.

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.