Henry Shi
Member Of Technical Staff at Super.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Shi is a product-focused software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable consumer and AI-first products from startup to growth stage. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, he works across product, engineering and research on emerging model capabilities while also co-founding and advising Super.com, a profitable fintech/ecommerce platform serving millions of users. He mixes hands-on systems and ML experience from roles at Google, LendUp and Bloomberg with a track record of founding startups, scaling backend infrastructure and shipping data-driven products. An active angel investor and advisor, Henry backs AI-native founders and writes about applied AI and founder journeys, curating the LeanAILeaderboard and publishing on Substack. Based in San Francisco and trained in computer science and machine learning, he pairs academic rigor with practical, revenue-focused execution. Notably, he balances deep technical work on AGI-adjacent models with operator experience driving $100M+ revenue businesses.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dropout, Dropout at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessOSSD, OSSD at John Fraser Secondary SchoolMaster's of Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning Specialization (AI), Master's of Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning Specialization (AI) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBCS, Honors Bachelor of Computer Science and Honors Economics, 96%, BCS, Honors Bachelor of Computer Science and Honors Economics, 96% at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (36)
phone-number-input10
chatgpt9
artificial-intelligence9
pytorch9
python9
large-language-models9
amplitude9
ai9
gpt9
number-input9
transformer8
llm8
react-component7
phone-number7
sdk7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
henrythe9th/official-lean-ai-native-leaderboard
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Official Lean AI Native Companies Leaderboard: The Future of 1-Person Billion-Dollar Startups
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
henrythe9th/Stately.js
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 4 months
finite-statebrowserfsmnode-jsjavascript
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