Brendan Falk
Founder CEO at Hercules
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Falk is a founder-CEO and product-minded engineer with nine years of experience building developer tools and AI-first products, currently leading Hercules to help people build apps and websites by chatting with AI. He previously co-founded Fig, scaling it to 200k+ users and open-sourcing core tooling (withfig/autocomplete) before it was acquired by AWS and became Amazon Q Developer, where he later led product for a large engineering org. Brendan blends hands-on full-stack development—shipping install/onboarding scripts, CLI integrations, and IDE-style autocomplete improvements—with enterprise GenAI strategy, having advised hundreds of private equity firms at AWS. A Harvard A.B. in Economics and serial founder from Australia, he pairs operator grit with product instincts and a track record of turning developer UX problems into widely adopted tools. An interesting detail: he published a Harvard Lampoon issue generated entirely by AI early in his college years, signaling his long-standing interest in creative AI applications.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Canberra Grammar SchoolY CombinatorA.B. Economics, A.B. Economics at Harvard UniversitySydney Grammar School
English, French
Github Skills (18)
git10
fig10
scripting10
typescript10
bash10
script10
typescript-types10
sh10
typescripts10
shell10
cli10
javascript9
automation9
zsh9
automations9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
withfig/autocomplete
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 270 commits, 74 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily worked on enhancing the functionality of the "autocomplete" repository, focusing on improving the user experience within the terminal environment. Their contributions included adding and modifying specifications for various command-line tools, which involved defining subcommands, options, and argument structures for different utilities. The user also updated the integration with the "fig" CLI, adding a git shortcut and made improvements to the display and behaviour of suggestions for files, folders and git commands, including those for file and folder selection.
zshiterm2bashfigide
withfig/fig-issues
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push, 6 comments in 4 months
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