Summary
Abdullah Nauman is a founder and machine learning-driven software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-impact systems—from ML infrastructure that helped attribute billions of clicks and drove $1B in Google revenue to an AI adversary startup securing enterprise attack surfaces. As co-founder of Antigen and founder of Powell St, he blends product-first engineering with venture-backed startup experience (Lightspeed, DST, Susa, YC) and a track record of creating viral growth loops (Agapè, 200k+ users) that attract top investors. His background spans distributed systems and scientific ML—developing compression for terabyte-scale wafer imaging, optimizing distributed training on Summit, and presenting at Supercomputing—bringing rare expertise at the intersection of production ML, security, and systems design. Based in San Francisco and grounded in a Computer Science education from Michigan and YC, he repeatedly ships features that move metrics (e.g., guided troubleshooting that reactivated advertiser spend) while cultivating founder networks that spawn multiple YC companies.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ward Melville Senior High School
Y Combinator
Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan
Italian, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, English