(0001) eight technical founder profiles

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People

• Oliver Gilan

  • Ex-Microsoft ex-Census engineer with one prior attempt at a startup who recently joined South Park Commons and is working on a new project for a few months.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Steve Kaliski

  • Just passed 5yr as a Staff Engineer at Stripe and recently changed teams. Previously co-founded a devtools startup.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Oleksii Sholik

  • Approaching 2yr as a Founding Engineer at ElectricSQL.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Joshua Brulé

  • Computer science researcher at John Hopkins APL working on various defense projects (autonomous UAVs, etc).

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Daniel Kornev

  • Part of Techstars ‘24 and building Sentius to make AI agents for enterprise companies for the last year. Prior big tech and startup experience.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Bryan Russett

  • Building Caurus an enterprise data infra platform. He worked as an engineer at ClassPass and his prior startup was acquired by Nike. He’s also involved in various infra-related meetups.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Anthony Humay

  • Working on Raycaster, a research tool for growth teams as part of YC F24. Previously an engineer at Snap, Apple, and Meta.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Vishnu Srinivasan

  • Investor/scout-turned founder with a CS degree, building a consumer-focused company GrandCharter for the last six months with small team and initial funding.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

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