I live in San Francisco and grew up in Eastern Europe. I studied at Dartmouth College and work as an early employee at a consumer AI startup.
Lately, I've been building harnesses for coding agents and thinking about how to engineer luck.
Things I've done
- Mercatus Fellow
- getsfhousing.com - 200 MAU, 10 paying customers.
- Consumer AI venture - Founding MLE. Backed by $10 mil from Tier-1 VC.
- Cursor for Sheets (Finalist in Google Gemini hackathon)
- Y Combinator AI Startup School 2025 - I asked Fei-Fei Li a question and it got 200k views on youtube.
- #1 hire at an AI lab backed by Vinod Khosla - poached mid-college from math proofs classes.
- Won 1st place in Europe's biggest defence hackathon
- Robotics research at UT Austin's Nuclear and Applied Robotics Group
- Text-to-CAD AI Agent (before it was cool) - Won Entrepreneur First hackathon
Open-source / Passion Projects
- Claude Code self-improve plugin
- Awesome SF events