Auguste Grunewald
Founding Partner at Heaviside
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAuguste Grunewald is a founder and technologist with 8 years of experience at the intersection of machine intelligence, finance, and developer-focused products. He co-founded Fileforge, scaled its PDF API and open-source react-print-pdf to 2k+ GitHub stars, and raised $3M through Y Combinator, combining hands-on product development with security-savvy engineering (SOC 2 / HIPAA-ready and on-prem solutions). Trained at EPFL, ETH Zürich and briefly at NUS in deep reinforcement learning for quantitative finance, he translated academic rigor into market-facing platforms and now runs Heaviside from Dubai with ambitions in proprietary trading and multi-strategy fund building. Notably, he pivoted quickly within YC from a coding assistant to a robust document workflow API and balances startup execution with quantitative research instincts.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Middle School Diploma, General Studies, Middle School Diploma, General Studies at Collège Albéric MagnardDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at National University of SingaporeBachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of TechnologyFrench Baccalaureate, Scientific section, Mathematics Specialization, European mention, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General, French Baccalaureate, Scientific section, Mathematics Specialization, European mention, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General at Lycée Hugues CapetBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)Y CombinatorMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
print10
pdf10
ycombinator10
pdf-manipulation10
javascript9
pdf-reader9
react9
documents9
html8
open-source7
sdk7
api7
pdf-generation6
nodejs6
pdf-viewer5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AugusteLef/GameBoyProject
Oct 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
AugusteLef/TheBellCurve
Sep 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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