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DevTools Founder Directory

Founders creating developer tools and infrastructure products.

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Joseph Suarez
@jsuarez

MIT PhD and founder of PufferAI, creator of Neural MMO and builder of open-source reinforcement learning tools. Previously interned at OpenAI and AWS, now offering consulting for simulation engineering and RL R&D.

TechnicalResearch
11 VCs
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Nathan Flurry
@nathanflurry

Founding engineer turned cofounder of Rivet (YC W23). Previously worked as a founding engineer and contractor at various tech companies.

FundedTechnical
11 VCs
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Kate Deyneka
@katedeyneka

Former ML engineer at Snapchat with a background in physics and biology, now building Reelful, an agentic video editor for mobile phones (a16z SR007).

FundedTechnical
11 VCs
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PhD from Princeton, previously at Google DeepMind, now building robot foundation models at Generalist AI.

TechnicalResearch
11 VCs
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Sonya Jin
@sonyashijin

Co-founder of Phinity (PearX S25), teaching LLMs how to tape out chips. Previously AI research at NVIDIA, graph ML at AWS AI Lab, and AI research at Stanford.

FundedTechnicalProductResearch
11 VCs
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Mudith Jayasekara
@mudithj

Co-founded Parsed Labs before joining Base Labs at Baseten. Currently pursuing a CS PhD at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar with an engineering background.

FundedTechnicalResearchStudent
11 VCs

CEO of @rebasetv, previously founding developer at @opencode and @anomalyco.

Technical
11 VCs
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Matthew Barnett
@matthewjbar

Technical Sales Representative at AGRU America with experience in geosynthetics and environmental engineering. Previously worked as an Assistant Project Manager at New South Construction and runs Barnett Social Media on the side. Georgia Tech alum now co-founding Mechanize.

FundedTechnicalSales
10 VCs
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David Zhao
@dzhxo

Stanford CS grad turned Google PM, now co-founder of Pika, building the front office for home services.

TechnicalProductResearch
10 VCs
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Charles Yang
@charlesxjyang

Executive Director at Center for Industrial Strategy and AI for Science Fellow at Renaissance Philanthropy. Previously worked at SambaNova AI and ARPA-E. Also founded RVA YIMBY and RVA EBikes while currently building something new in stealth mode.

Web3TechnicalResearchStudent
10 VCs
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