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DevTools Founder Directory

Founders creating developer tools and infrastructure products.

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Teknium
@teknium

Cofounder and Head of Post Training at Nous Research, previously at Stability AI. Active in the open source AI community with contributions on GitHub and Hugging Face.

Research
18 VCs

Former Google engineer and Ethereum Foundation alum, now founder and lead developer of Ethereum Name Service. Built ENS from the ground up starting in 2018 to become the leading blockchain naming system.

Web3Technical
17 VCs
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Alex Rattray
@rattrayalex

Former Stripe engineer who worked on developer platform and products, now founder of Stainless API. Previously built software at Hired before joining Stripe.

TechnicalProduct
17 VCs
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Sachin Katti
@sk7037

Chief Technology & AI Officer at Intel, where he also serves as GM of the Network and Edge Group. Previously held CTO and SVP roles within Intel's networking division.

FundedTechnicalResearch
17 VCs
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Charlie Holtz
@charlieholtz

Quantitative researcher at Point72 turned engineer at Replicate, now founder and CEO of Melty (YC S24).

FundedTechnicalResearch
17 VCs
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Craig Weiss
@craigzliszt

Software engineer with experience at Google, Meta, Snap, Lyft, and NASA. Early engineer at Scale AI before founding Rome (YC W22).

FundedTechnical
16 VCs
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Sam Hogan
@samhogan

Repeat founder (previously built Hirebird) and founding engineer at YC-backed Origami Agents, now co-founder of Searchable working on AI SEO. Also CEO at inference_net.

FundedTechnicalDesign
16 VCs
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Steve.wasm
@nilslice

CEO of Dylibso, a WebAssembly platform company. Previously worked in software engineering with a focus on systems programming and developer tools.

Founder
16 VCs
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Toly
@toly

Co-founder of Solana, a high-performance blockchain platform. Previously worked as a software engineer at Dropbox. Also describes himself as an "award winning phone creator."

Web3Technical
15 VCs

Former Palantir executive who led Forward Deployed AI Engineering and US Commercial operations, now CEO & Co-Founder of Edra.

Technical
15 VCs
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