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Smartling co-founder/ex-CTO, People.ai ex-CTO, now CTO at Backstory
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Technical Depth · 91th percentile
- Founded the company behind smartling/ios-i18n, a flagship open-source project with 200 stars on GitHub.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)smartling.com ranks #50,006 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Co-founded Smartling and served as CTO from 2009 to 2017.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Founded the company behind smartling/ios-i18n, a flagship open-source project with 200 stars on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Currently CTO at Backstory (formerly People.ai), building AI-powered automation.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Co-founded Smartling with other co-founders.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Granted 3 US patents assigned to People.ai as a named inventor on sales-activity systems.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Smartling raised $220M+ as a co-founder and CTO.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor, participating in Ability AI's $1.1M round alongside SMRK and other angels.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)One tracked active angel investment (Ability AI) per Exa-grounded portfolio.
What you likely need
You're a two-time senior technical operator (Smartling co-founder/CTO, People.ai/Backstory CTO) now building AI automation for healthcare and angel-investing on the side. The highest-leverage Festival events for you are small, senior CTO/founder dinners on 0→1 AI-agent architecture, hiring rooms to close founding engineers in the US and Ukraine, and curated angel-investor gatherings to sharpen deal flow.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- tacticalA closed-door CTO dinner on production AI-agent architectures for regulated verticals (healthcare, revenue intelligence).
- positioningA healthcare-AI founders roundtable to pressure-test Backstory's 0→1 clinical-admin automation thesis with domain buyers.
- hiringA founding-engineer hiring happy hour focused on backend/ML/agent talent in the US and Europe/Ukraine corridor.
- introsA Smartling and People.ai alumni gathering to reconnect with former teammates now leading engineering across SF.
- introsAn operator-angels dinner to swap AI/GTM deal flow with other ex-CTO angels writing early checks.
- fundraisingA curated seed-fund evening to meet AI-infrastructure and vertical-AI leads ahead of Backstory's next round.
- introsA Ukrainian tech-leaders meetup to deepen engineering-recruiting and support Ukrainian founders in the SF ecosystem.
- wellbeingA small founder wellbeing session (coffee + kettlebells crowd) on sustaining energy across a third company build.