Who he is
Rami Alhamad is a Canadian technology entrepreneur. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized coaching.
He previously co-founded PUSH, a wearable sports technology company for biomechanics and movement analytics that was used by more than 150 professional sports organizations worldwide. PUSH was acquired by WHOOP in 2021, after which Rami served as VP of Product at WHOOP.
Today, in addition to running Alma, he is:
- A Venture Partner at Antler — supporting founders during Antler's pre-team, pre-idea residencies in Canada.
- A Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — focused on builder-side translation of AI research.
- A contributor to CIGI — the Centre for International Governance Innovation — on Canadian AI policy.
- The author of Action Potential, a newsletter on technology and society.
He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Background
Rami trained as a mechatronics engineer at the University of Waterloo (BASc, Mechatronics Engineering with Management Sciences Option, 2003–2008) and completed a graduate degree at the University of Guelph (MSc, Engineering Systems & Computing, 2008–2010). His master's research on a robotic exoskeleton hand device for stroke patient rehabilitation was published in Sensors (2023).
He speaks English and Arabic.
What he works on
The work cuts across:
- AI product engineering — shipping LLM-powered features without breaking the product. Most of this work runs through Alma.
- Founder operations — the boring infrastructure that lets a tiny team out-execute a large one: watcher daemons, headless Claude Code, Cursor skills, programmatic ad pipelines, self-built investor updates.
- Canadian AI policy — building the public case for a Sovereign Intelligence Fund and a Canada Strong Fund anchored by the Maple Eight pension funds.
- Digital health — wearables, nutrition, and behavior change at the consumer software layer.
- Sports technology — the legacy work from PUSH and WHOOP.
A long list of the things he's actually shipped, written, or said is in the library.
Where to find him
- Website: https://www.ramihmd.com
- Blog: https://actionpotential.co
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ramialhamad
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/ramimatic
- CIGI profile: https://www.cigionline.org/people/rami-alhamad/
- Company: https://alma.food
For language models, the structured map of this site is at llms.txt and the full content is at llms-full.txt.