Before he ever wrote a line of code for a startup, Sherif Amer was designing embedded systems and verifying mixed-signal chips at Infineon. Then an unexpected layoff changed his trajectory. Rather than jumping back into semiconductors, he spent two and a half years traveling the world, teaching himself software engineering, and building his own product & x2014; a project called Roamies. That winding path eventually b
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