Replit Expands Government Business, Hires Ex-AWS Executive Michael Greenwald

Public sector push builds on enterprise growth

Replit says the government expansion builds on its enterprise business, which has been growing over the last 12 months. According to the company, its platform is used by builders in 85% of the Fortune 500 companies. Atlassian, Adobe, Visa and Databricks are among the firms named as customers.

Replit also makes a claim about how customers expand their use. Once a single department within an enterprise adopts Replit, the company says its business doubles after six months and grows to 400% over 12 months.

On the government side, Replit reports strong adoption across agencies at the national, state and local levels in the U.S. and overseas, including the Middle East. The company cites a Gartner projection that by 2028, at least 80% of governments will deploy AI agents to automate routine decisions. Replit, which says it pioneered agents in 2024, presents itself as a way for employees to build and scale applications rapidly and securely.

Who is Michael Greenwald

Greenwald joins as President of Corporate Affairs to speed up the company's expansion into the public sector. According to Replit, he has more than two decades of experience across technology, finance, business and national security.

• At AWS, he was Director of Global Executive Relations, where he helped lead Amazon's international business expansion and drove adoption of its AI offerings by governments and institutions worldwide.
• He was previously Managing Director at AlTi Global.
• He spent nearly a decade at the U.S. Treasury Department in senior policy and intelligence roles across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
• As the first U.S. Treasury attaché to Qatar and Kuwait, he established the Treasury's first offices in those nations and served as the principal senior U.S. financial diplomat to their banking sectors.

Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, said: "We're seeing more enterprises use Replit across their teams to securely and rapidly build and deploy apps, and now governments are doing the same." He added that Greenwald's background "will help us bring this capability to more people and industries."

Greenwald said he was joining because Replit's mission "is at the core of the American dream" and that the technology is "built on a foundation of trust, safety, and security."

Government projects in Jordan and Saudi Arabia

Replit points to several public sector examples. Jordan's Ministry of Education and National Council for Future Technology used the platform to develop Siraj, an AI learning assistant that, according to the company, now reaches 1.3 million users across 5,800 schools.

Replit is also working with HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia's national AI company, with the aim of making Saudi Arabia the first country to put AI coding agents in the hands of every student. The company also said it opened its first international office in London last month, with the support of Mayor Sadiq Khan.

What it means for the market

The announcement shows Replit moving beyond corporate customers and putting senior leadership behind public sector sales, with a focus on international markets. The appointment of an executive with experience in both government relations and cloud AI adoption signals that the company sees agencies as a core growth area.

Replit describes itself as a platform that lets anyone build applications using natural language. It was founded in 2016 and, according to the company, has more than 60 million users worldwide. It lists partnerships with Google, Stripe and Slack, among others, and is headquartered in San Francisco with an office in London.