AI Builders & Founders Directory
Founders and engineers behind Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Devin, Lovable, Replit, and OpenCode.
OpenAI
Featured profileOpenAI
Tibo Sottiaux
Product leader
Known for Codex and ChatGPT
A product leader whose work connects OpenAI's coding agents, research, and the broader ChatGPT experience.
Featured profileOpenAI
Alexander Embiricos
Codex product lead
Known for OpenAI Codex
The product leader helping turn Codex from a coding agent into a multi-environment software engineering system.
Featured profileOpenAI
Jason Liu
Developer Experience, Codex
Known for Codex developer workflows and Instructor
An engineer and educator working on Codex developer experience after building the popular Instructor library.
AI builderOpenAI
Nick Turley
VP, Head of ChatGPT
Known for ChatGPT product leadership
The product executive guiding ChatGPT as it expands from conversational AI into a platform for tools and agents.
Featured profileOpenAI / OpenClaw
Peter Steinberger
Agent builder
Known for OpenClaw and personal agents
The veteran software founder behind OpenClaw, now working on the next generation of personal agents at OpenAI.
Anthropic
Featured profileAnthropic
Boris Cherny
Head of Claude Code
Known for Creating Claude Code
The engineer who originated Claude Code and leads Anthropic's effort to make the terminal an agentic development environment.
Featured profileAnthropic
Catherine “Cat” Wu
Head of Product, Claude Code
Known for Claude Code product strategy
The product leader shaping how Claude Code turns rapidly improving models into practical software-development workflows.
Featured profileAnthropic
Thariq Shihipar
Member of Technical Staff
Known for Claude Code skills and dynamic workflows
An Anthropic engineer explaining and building the context, skills, and harness patterns behind Claude Code.
AI builderAnthropic / Bun
Jarred Sumner
Engineer and founder
Known for Creating Bun
The creator of the fast JavaScript runtime Bun, now part of Anthropic's developer-tooling organization.
Cursor
Featured profileCursor
Michael Truell
Co-founder and CEO
Known for Building Cursor
The CEO who helped turn Cursor from an AI-native editor experiment into a central platform for coding agents.
AI builderCursor
Aman Sanger
Co-founder
Known for Cursor's AI engineering systems
A Cursor co-founder with a research and engineering background focused on making AI-native programming practical.
AI builderCursor
Sualeh Asif
Co-founder
Known for Cursor product and company building
One of Cursor's four co-founders, working across the product and organization behind the AI code editor.
AI builderSpaceXAI / Cursor
Lauren Tan
Engineer and pstack creator
Known for Grok Bot, pstack, and React
An engineer at SpaceXAI working on Grok Bot and Cursor, and the creator of pstack's engineering and verification workflows.
Cognition
Featured profileCognition
Scott Wu
Co-founder and CEO
Known for Devin
The competitive programmer and CEO leading Cognition's attempt to build autonomous AI software engineers.
AI builderCognition
Walden Yan
Co-founder and CPO
Known for Devin product systems
A Cognition co-founder shaping Devin's product direction and the workflows around autonomous engineering agents.
AI builderCognition
Steven Hao
Co-founder and CTO
Known for Cognition's engineering and research
The Cognition co-founder and technical leader helping build the models and infrastructure behind Devin.
Lovable
AI builderLovable
Anton Osika
Co-founder and CEO
Known for Lovable
The AI engineer and founder leading Lovable's mission to let anyone build software by describing it.
Featured profileLovable
Fabian Hedin
Co-founder and CTO
Known for Lovable's technical platform
The technical co-founder building the infrastructure that turns natural-language product ideas into working applications.
AI builderLovable
Nakul Narayan
Head of Product
Known for Lovable product leadership
Lovable's newly appointed product leader, joining as the company expands from prompt-to-app creation into a broader platform.
Replit
AI builderReplit
Amjad Masad
Founder and CEO
Known for Replit
The programmer and founder building Replit into an accessible software-creation platform powered by AI agents.
Featured profileReplit
Michele Catasta
President and Head of AI
Known for Replit Agent
The applied-AI leader directing Replit's agent research, product execution, and broader company operations.
AI builderReplit
Jordan Walke
Head of Product
Known for Creating React and leading Replit product
React's original creator, now applying a language-and-tools mindset to product development at Replit.
AI builderReplit
Luis Héctor Chávez
CTO
Known for Replit infrastructure and engineering
Replit's CTO, responsible for the engineering systems that let AI agents build, run, and deploy software in the cloud.
Open Source & Independent
Featured profileOpenCode
Dax Raad
Co-creator
Known for OpenCode
A developer and company builder behind OpenCode, the open-source, provider-neutral coding agent gaining rapid adoption.
AI builderPi
Mario Zechner
Creator
Known for Pi Coding Agent
An independent developer known for compact, hackable tools and the deliberately minimal Pi coding-agent harness.
AI builderAmp
Quinn Slack
Co-founder
Known for Amp and Sourcegraph
A Sourcegraph co-founder now focused on Amp and a model of coding-agent development built around frontier capabilities.
AI builderAmp / Sourcegraph
Beyang Liu
Co-founder
Known for Code intelligence and Amp
A Sourcegraph co-founder working at the intersection of code intelligence, developer tools, and agentic software creation.
AI builderAider
Paul Gauthier
Creator
Known for Aider
The creator of Aider, one of the earliest widely adopted open-source pair-programming agents for the terminal.
AI builderCline
Saoud Rizwan
Founder and CEO
Known for Cline
The founder behind Cline, the open-source IDE agent that made transparent tool use and bring-your-own-model workflows mainstream.
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