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 tinkering with autoresearch for inference optimization, speculative decoding, and how to engineer luck.
Things I've done
- DARTree-MLX - 3.12x speedup of Qwen on Apple Silicon.
- Mercatus Fellow
- getsfhousing.com - 200 MAU, 10 paying customers.
- AI consumer venture - Founding MLE. Backed by $10 mil from Tier-1 VC.
- 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
- Self-improve plugin for Claude Code
- Awesome SF events
- Cursor for Sheets - Finalist in Google Gemini hackathon.