Ethan Byrd
Founder at primitive.dev (YC P26)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Byrd is a founder and engineering leader with eight years of experience building products across major platforms and startups in San Francisco. He’s founded and served as CTO of AI-focused startups including Actual AI and currently leads primitive.dev (YC P26), bringing applied ML and product instincts to lightweight, email-centered automation. His background includes hands-on systems and platform work at Google (Android & Play), Meta (AR display research), AWS, and Microsoft, giving him deep familiarity with large-scale product engineering and developer tooling. A Georgia Tech CS graduate, Ethan combines research-adjacent AR and mobile experience with cloud and .NET foundations—an uncommon cross-section that helps him ship pragmatic infrastructure for user-facing AI features.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.C.S., Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, B.S.C.S., Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (39)
roslyn10
dotnet10
csproj10
code-analysis10
sdk10
visual-studio10
cps10
fsproj10
structured-data10
fsharp10
csharp10
programming-language9
dotnet-core9
cli9
compiler9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
etbyrd/project-system
Apr 2018 - Jun 2024
The C#, F# and Visual Basic project system for Visual Studio
Contributions:227 pushes, 64 branches in 6 years 3 months
basic-projectdotnetvisual-basiccsharpvisual-studio
primitivedotdev/sdks
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Official Node.js, Python, and Go SDKs plus the primitive CLI for Primitive — email infrastructure for AI agents. Generated from the OpenAPI spec.
Contributions:8 reviews, 41 PRs, 157 pushes in 3 months
ai-agentclie-mailgonodejs
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