(0024) ex-big tech engineers

Jan 10, 2025

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People

Feifan Zhou
- Ex-Stripe engineer building Tanagram as part of PearX, in order to help engineers make sense of huge codebases.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Iñaki Arango
- Soon-to-be Harvard BS/MS CS grad with internships at Amazon, Google, and Jane Street. As a student, co-founded a company focused on improving the traceability of recyclable materials. Someone to watch for the future.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Paul McDonald
- PM at Google for 16yr with a stint as a retail automation startup which raised $45m and was acquired. Now working on Aligned Labs for the last nine months, helping experts fine-tune AI models.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Saurabh Bhatnagar
- Experience data scientist now applying generative AI to fashion with Bohita while offering AI consulting services.
- Twitter / LinkedIn
Gyanendra Mishra
- Bloomberg and Palantir engineer now working in stealth on TabTabTab (autocomplete for everything on your computer).
- Twitter / LinkedIn
James Delorey
- Long-time Adobe engineer with prior startup experience co-founding HoneyGrid to provide granular location targeting for local advertising.
- Twitter / LinkedIn

We curate interesting people that have some signals that they might be interesting founders either now or in the future. They are not guaranteed to be currently founding or interested in investment.
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