Who is Jawed Karim?

Jawed Karim is one of the popular German-American internet entrepreneurs, software engineers, and technologists. Working as an employee of PayPal, he co-founded YouTube with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

Moreover, he was also the first person to upload a video on YouTube that was titled ‘Me at the zoo.’

Who are the parents of Jawed Karim?

This software engineer was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany (Present-day Germany). Jawed was raised along with his sister, Ilias in Neuss.

His father’s name is Naimul Karim who is a researcher from Bangladesh associated with the University of Minnesota as a research professor of biochemistry. And likely, his mother’s name is Christine Karim a German scientist.

During the early 1980s, due to xenophobia, his family relocated to West Germany after crossing the inner German border. Likely again in 1992, they relocated to Saint Minnesota, US.

Jawed holds a German-American nationality and belongs to Mixed (Bangladesh, Germany) ethnicity.

Education, University

Talking about his education, he has his schooling at Saint Paul Central High School. He then attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, in the department of computer science.

Jawed has his internship at Silicon Graphics Inc working on 3D voxel data management. Before completing his graduation, he joined PayPal.

He, however, continued his study later and obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science in 2004. Thereafter, he joined Stanford University and earned a master’s degree in computer science.