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Instinct

Founding Engineer
Oct 2025 – Jan 2026San Francisco, CA
TypeScriptReactDistributed SystemsAI/ML

Built all core platform primitives and frontend for the enterprise offering.

Highlights

  • Built a double-entry ledger system processing $300k+ in payouts and invoicing
  • AI review pipelines for posts, applications, task completion and payouts, enabling autonomous platform operation
  • Near turing-complete automation service and event system (n8n-like, 150k+ invocations)
  • Organization and user profiling feeding into RAG (accurate retrieval @ 8M vectors)
  • Horizontally scalable queue and container infra, real-time chat handling 20k+ simultaneously online users

Architected the platform to effortlessly scale from 0 to 100k MAUs, 40M+ API requests and Terabytes of video data.