Lina ElSayed

Overview

I started Forge Health to fix edtech for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $4 million across 3 rounds. Most at home with growth and mobile. Marathoner (3 so far).

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Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Apr 2025 - Present
   Forge Health · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
   • Grew the team to 51 people across 4 countries.
   • Took Forge Health from zero to $7 million ARR.
2. Staff Software Engineer

   Dec 2021 - Dec 2024
   Google · 3 yr · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Led the migration of 54 services to mobile.
3. Engineering Manager

   Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
   Telefónica · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 17 a week to 4.
4. Director of Engineering

   Sep 2016 - Feb 2019
   Klarna · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 4.
   • Moved 92% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Director of Engineering

   Oct 2013 - Sep 2016
   Booking.com · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Shipped 8 launches on the web team without a rollback.

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Education

1. Sorbonne University

   Licence, Engineering
   1998 - 2001