San Jose, California, United States
Blindfolded Rubik's Cube Guinness world record holder (22.67 seconds): youtube.com/watch?v=N8MNEngonTs Top 99.95% competitive coding (2778 LeetCode rating), solved >4000 questions Former professional poker player! I ❤️ game theory. Former rank #1 in the world at competitive Pokemon Go. Prev eng #2 @ Extend AI (YC W23), self-taught SWE. [email protected] https://github.com/ishaanbuildsthings BS in business administration @ Berkeley Haas. I did not like business school ;)
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founding eng #2
I owned >50 cell phones and operated a Pokemon Go boosting empire for 2 years. I made >5,000 sales to customers with a perfect 5.0 review rating across eBay and Etsy. I sold to high-profile clients like doctors, lawyers, and even celebrities. I also briefly reached #1 in the world at competitive Pokemon Go Battle League.
I trained under the #2 player in the world and played professional high-stakes poker online during Covid. Win-rate of >4BB/100 (top 1% of players) in some of the hardest fields. Used game theory, math, statistics, and probability to model opponent's play and develop exploitative counter-strategies. Won a lot of money and met some interesting people.
I broke the world record for solving a Rubik's cube while blindfolded in 22.67 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8MNEngonTs Skipped my classes at UC Berkeley and flew around the world competing in tournaments. I had the privilege of being sponsored by both the worlds largest speed-cubing retailer and manufacturer. I traveled to many cool places such as Paris for the 2017 Rubik's Cube World Championships. I then built algfinder.com to generate efficient solutions for blindfolded-solving because it sucked doing it by hand.