About
I’m Firas Kafri.
I co-founded Salalem, a compliance-driven talent development platform that helps regulated organizations assign required learning by role and maintain audit-ready evidence. I work across its product, technology, and operations.
Most of my work sits where software, organizations, and AI meet.
I’m particularly interested in what happens after the demo: how a system is operated, constrained, explained, and improved.
Outside Salalem, I build products, tools, and frameworks. Flocki handles attendance and leave management. Progressive Clarity explores how AI responses should be structured. FinSpec makes financial-market relationships interactive. HELM is an operating model for teams building with AI agents.
Earlier work
- JoGeeks: Co-founder and CTO, 2011–2016.
- Google Developers Group Amman: Founder and leader, 2012–2016.
- UpSpark: Co-founder and managing director, 2015–2016.
Selected publication
In 2017, I co-authored Crawl, Walk, Run, and Only Then Compete with Marwan Soudi. The report presents a framework for building innovative entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging economies.
The thread across this work is products, communities, and how people organize to build.
This site is where I keep that work and write down what I learn.