Faizaan Chishtie
CEO & Co-Founder at Minicor (YC X26)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFaizaan Chishtie is a serial founder and full-stack engineer with eight years of startup and product experience, currently building Minicor (YC X26), a platform that automates legacy desktop workflows for AI companies. He has repeatedly shipped early-stage MVPs and integrations—from founding Homeboard (mid-five-figure ARR furniture subscriptions) to building core product at Typecast, Secoda, and Phoenix—bridging product, ops, and engineering. His background includes multiple accelerator cohorts (Next 36, Antler) and YC, plus internships at Microsoft where he shipped production React/TypeScript features. Faizaan contributes to open source in his spare time and experiments with an in-memory vector DB (Vemcache), reflecting a hands-on interest in tooling for fast iteration. Comfortable leading teams or coding end-to-end, he specializes in turning messy, integration-heavy problems into deployable systems on tight timelines.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Spring 2026, Spring 2026 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Applied Science, Software Engineering (CO-OP), Bachelor of Applied Science, Software Engineering (CO-OP) at University of Ottawa
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
microsoft-teams9
nodejs8
javascript7
vector7
wcag7
typescript6
if-statement6
java6
node-module6
microsoft5
accessibility5
iot-application4
procedures4
gatsbyjs4
network-automation3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
uOttawaDrone/documentation-procedures
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Documentation procedures that we'll follow at uoDrone
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
followprocedures
FaizChishtie/mrtopo
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
Research assistant work for IoT
Contributions:9 releases, 44 PRs, 86 pushes in 10 months
assistantmqttiotiot-application
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