Adel Haddad

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Co-founder & CTO, Cinder Studio - payroll · sales · HR tech

Cinder Studio
Hamburg, Germany · CET (UTC+1)
9+ years experience
École Polytechnique
English, German
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Cinder Studio (HR software). 17 years of building before that. Took Cinder Studio from zero to $12 million ARR. Most at home with payroll and sales. Bird-watcher and amateur naturalist.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Working sessions on fintech
  • Second opinions on HR tech decisions
  • Questions about HR software
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Fundraising consultants
  • Paid accelerator offers
Skills
salesHR techfintechpayroll
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - cold-chain monitoring for logistics fleets, $66k MRR

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$66k
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$776k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$66k MRR after 12 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$66k MRR after 12 months. Looking for investors who know banking and can help with hiring.

Hamburg, Germanysalesfintechhr tech
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Cinder Studio · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Hamburg, Germany
    • Signed 32 paying customers, 4 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $9 million across 2 rounds.
    • Grew the team to 110 people across 4 countries.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
    Zalando · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Hamburg, Germany
    • Moved 93% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
    Wise · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hamburg, Germany
    • Wrote the HR tech service that now handles 23 million requests a day.
    • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 25 a week to 2.
  4. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
    Uber · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Hamburg, Germany
    • Grew the Android team from 3 to 21 engineers.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
    Capgemini · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hamburg, Germany
    • Grew the growth team from 4 to 29 engineers.

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Education

  1. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Business Administration
    2005 - 2009

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