Aligning software companies
With founders, CEOs, and investors, I line up leadership, product, and engineering so strategy reaches what ships.
AdvisoryI'm Mohammed Attar. I've spent my career getting teams pointed the same way.
I've worked across nearly every stage of a software company's life: IBM, SendGrid, Twilio, Front, and Stripe.
The pattern was always the same. Teams rarely fail for lack of talent. They struggle when people and systems aren't pointed at the same thing. Aligning them is the work I care about most, and it's what Velign does in two ways.
Aligning tools and AI with people
With law firms, clinics, and city offices, I build software around how their people really work, so the tools support the team and not the other way around.
BuildWhere the name comes from
Velign is velocity and alignment together. It's the idea behind everything I do: velocity happens through alignment.
Where I've worked
Stripe
Business Lead. Built Stripe's software development operating system, which lets a company of its caliber ship consistently at scale.
Front
Chief Product Officer. More than doubled recurring revenue, sharpened product-market fit around the support market, and led the move to an AI-led multiproduct strategy.
Twilio
General Manager, SendGrid. Led the integration of SendGrid into Twilio, growing the business to more than $250M in revenue serving over 100,000 customers.
SendGrid
VP of Engineering. Scaled platform throughput from 350 billion to 1 trillion emails a year, from pre-IPO through acquisition.
IBM
12 years. Product and engineering leadership across multiple businesses, including the Watson Data Platform and Enterprise Content Management.