Abraham Chaibi
Engineer and Founder in Pharmaceutical Testing
San Carlos United States (California)
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Abraham Chaibi is cofounder and CEO of Sapho Bio. The San Carlos company automates qc workflows for pharmaceutical companies. Its rapid sterility method returns results in 2 days, compared with 14 for the standard USP<71> method.
He arrived at biotech through software. As cofounder and CTO of Dexterity Capital from 2017 to 2024, he led the engineering behind the firm's low-latency trading platform. Earlier, he built data systems at LiveRamp and worked on optimization problems, NFL scheduling among them, for an analytics consultancy.
Abraham holds a BSE in mechanical engineering, cum laude. He is a licensed pilot.
He arrived at biotech through software. As cofounder and CTO of Dexterity Capital from 2017 to 2024, he led the engineering behind the firm's low-latency trading platform. Earlier, he built data systems at LiveRamp and worked on optimization problems, NFL scheduling among them, for an analytics consultancy.
Abraham holds a BSE in mechanical engineering, cum laude. He is a licensed pilot.
Cofounder & CEO
Sapho Bio
Since March 2025
San Carlos
United States - California
- Cofounded a San Carlos lab automation company rebuilding independent testing workflows, starting with pharmaceutical products. Sapho Bio runs USP-validated lot release and stability studies, and its rapid sterility method returns results in 2 days compared with 14 for the standard USP<71> method. Grew the customer base to 30 enterprises and thousands of tests processed each month.
Company Description
Pharmaceutical testing lab in San Carlos, California, combining AI tooling with automated hardware.
Company website
Cofounder & CTO
Dexterity Capital
January 2017
to December 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
United States - California
- Cofounded a high-frequency crypto trading firm and led the engineering behind its low-latency trading platform. Wrote more than 100,000 lines of automated trading software that traded more than $2 trillion, and managed $300 million across dozens of exchanges with millisecond response times. Built a team of more than 30 engineers and traders, and deployed a 10,000-core data center that cut model-fitting costs by 90% compared with cloud providers.
Software Engineer
LiveRamp
January 2016
to May 2017
San Francisco
United States - California
- Automated petabytes of file movement, saving the operations team dozens of hours each week. Built an international data-processing pipeline and helped cut critical workflow turnaround from weeks to days.
Operations Engineer
Analytics Operations Engineering
September 2014
to December 2015
Boston
United States - Massachusetts
- Delivered optimization work spanning NFL scheduling and inventory management for a $15B retailer. The firm was acquired by McKinsey in 2016.
