Gavin Bains
Co-Founder at The LLM Data Company
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGavin Bains is a startup-focused software engineer and founder with nine years of hands-on experience building products at the intersection of blockchain, robotics, IoT, and ML. Currently co-founder of The LLM Data Company (YC-backed) after senior engineering roles at Traba, Tydo, and an array of early-stage ventures, he blends product-driven execution with deep technical curiosity. His background includes engineering stints at Honey (acquired by PayPal), Tesla, IBM (NLP), and research work at USC, reflecting comfort across production systems, research prototypes, and operational scaling. Gavin gravitates toward hard problems—from reducing human error in driving to improving compute for interstellar-scale computation—and often operates in founding or early-team roles where technical ownership matters. Based in San Francisco, he pairs an Electrical Engineering & CS foundation with YC experience and a track record of attracting top-tier investors to ventures he helps build.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaX25, X25 at Y Combinator
English, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, klingon, sindarin, Spanish, German, Korean
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Github Skills (79)
postgresql10
python10
operation10
data-warehouse10
airbyte10
databases10
duckdb10
data-pipeline10
schema10
validation10
pipeline10
schema-validation10
bigquery10
mysql10
java10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gavinbains/NERP
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
gbains8172/0x168
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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