Michael Truell
Summary
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RockstarMichael T is a founder and engineer with a decade of experience building AI-first developer tools from San Francisco. As co-founder and CEO of Cursor and Anysphere he leads product, model training and infrastructure efforts to automate coding while remaining hands-on—contributing front-end keybinding and UI work plus chat-backend features to the open-source AI code editor Cursor. He holds a double major in CS and Math from MIT, has published research (mntruell.com/math.pdf), and previously worked on LLMs at Google and co-created Two Sigma’s Halite III, blending rigorous theory with product instincts. Comfortable switching between low-level UX details and large-scale model/infrastructure design, he builds teams and systems that span research and production.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types9
bind9
keybindings9
typescript9
typescripts9
binding9
electron8
back-end-development8
nodejs7
api-design6
cicd6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
getcursor/cursor
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
The AI Code Editor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 68 PRs, 109 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the front-end and application setup, with changes to keybinding functionality and UI components. They also made some backend changes related to chat features, indicating involvement across the full stack. They also implemented setup scripts and configuration files.
FidoProject/fidoproject.github.io
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 1 month
fido
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