Mahmoud graduated from Rice University with a degree in Electrical Engineering where he built AI & ML solutions at Baylor College of Medicine Neuroscience & Texas Children's Hospital + co-published a paper at the Rice Networks Group. After Rice, Mahmoud built RPA solutions impacting 20K+ employees at a Fortune 100 company, which inspired him to cofound Cyberdesk to build a computer use agent developers can use to automate desktop workflows.