I live in San Francisco and grew up in Eastern Europe. I studied at Dartmouth College and work as an early employee at an AI startup.
Lately, I've been working on AI inference, optimizing world models on specific hardware, speculative decoding, and how to engineer luck.
Things I've done
- lingbot-world-v2-realtime - 40k views on Reddit.
- Mercatus Fellow
- getsfhousing.com - 200 MAU, 20 paying customers.
- AI consumer venture - Founding MLE. Backed by $10 mil from Tier-1 VC.
- Y Combinator AI Startup School 2025 - 200k views on Youtube of me asking Fei-Fei Li a question.
- #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
- DARTree-MLX - 3.12x speedup with speculative decoding of Qwen 3.8 27B on Apple Silicon.
- Self-improve plugin for Claude Code
- Awesome SF events
- Cursor for Sheets - Finalist in Google Gemini hackathon.