Aya Jaff

Aya Jaff (born in 1995 in the Kurdish part of Iraq) is a programmer, founder and author. She taught herself to code at an early age and worked in Silicon Valley, Dublin and Madrid, including for Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. As CTO, she developed the social trading stock-market game Tradity in collaboration with WHU and Telefónica. In 2020, she published “Moneymakers,” a book about the worlds of finance and technology. Jaff also hosted the ARD program “How to get rich, Aya?” and was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2019.