Afik Cohen
Co-Founder at Stealth Robotics Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAfik Cohen is a seasoned engineer-turned-founder with 12 years building high-scale mobile and AI systems, from senior Android roles at TikTok, Airbnb and Postmates to early technical staff at Perplexity and Morph Labs. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Android, C++, TypeScript and AI with leadership experience setting company-wide standards, shipping features for 1B+ users, and launching agentic developer tools. Afik has repeatedly turned prototypes into funded startups—spinning up agentic code-optimization and AI voice-chat products before now co-founding a robotics company that has active deployments. Notably, he bridged mobile and AI worlds by using GPT-4-32k to accelerate Android reimplementations at Perplexity and by founding a Static Analysis Working Group at TikTok to institutionalize code quality. Based in San Francisco, he pairs product instincts with pragmatic engineering to move cutting-edge research into production.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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yaml
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Github Skills (200)
android-animation10
beat-detection10
api-client10
sparkle10
sonnet10
noise10
chatgpt10
animation10
python-app10
intellij-plugin10
yaml10
gemini10
cli10
llama10
java10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aphexcx/Nuitka
Mar 2024 - Apr 2024
Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.
Contributions:11 reviews, 21 PRs, 50 pushes in 14 days
aphexcx/titanium-backup-merger
Sep 2013 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 5 years 2 months
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