23yrs-now:
- i got tired of product engineering so i joined openai
- ai research at sora
- making agi experience the world
22-23yrs:
- software engineer at midjourney
- wrote the world's most performant web image grid. own loading queue, multithreaded with offscreencanvas, & smoothly renders thousands of pngs towards better resolutions as you get closer
- built all internal tooling for hyperparameter tuning and dataset explorer
- built pair rankings, psychometrics, tasks frontend & backend & infra
- some other things ;)
20-22yrs old:
- founding engineer at Dataland (YC), building a developer-first Airtable focused on performance - loading hundreds of thousands of rows in seconds
- built one of the most performant web tables in production, could handle hundreds of thousands of rows + filters + sorting without losing frames
- built another web table as an experiment using skia with rust bindings. chrome uses skia internally to paint content, and being written in C++, it can be compiled into webassembly. scrolls & renders rows at 60fps on an x6 cpu slowdown.
- demo: https://www.loom.com/share/540ad426c22c4db192293babfc9c7fdf
19-20yrs old:
- recruited to become interim CTO of Curb Food, the largest cloud kitchen in Sweden at the time with 80 employees
- built a team of 7 engineers from scratch
- launched our kitchen management system into production
17-19yrs old:
- dropped out of high school
- founding team from day 0 at Depict.ai (YC S20), now ~40 employees.
- built first product recommender system, using image cnn & nlp
- did b2b sales knocking doors & closed customers
14-16yrs old:
- bought and sold pokemon cards for 20k$+ with very high margins
- ran a minecraft server with content creators, and built an open-world rpg server that i tried to monetize
- made minecraft timelapses with millions of views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKozEAf0HL4
- leader of a clash of clans clan that was one of the first to 100 war wins
- open canvas image generation UI: https://image-generation-ui.vercel.app/
- more at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-petersson-ai/