Joe Averbukh
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Averbukh is a founder-engineer with 12 years of experience building developer-first products and realtime collaboration infrastructure. As Co-Founder of InstantDB, he’s building a modern Firebase to make realtime and collaborative apps like Notion and Figma easier to ship, drawing on hands-on full‑stack work (React frontend, backend APIs, CLI improvements) in the instant repo. Previously he scaled internal developer and data tooling at Facebook and Airbnb—work that included launching React Native internal mobile apps and dashboards that helped distribute $250M in COVID relief. A UCLA math graduate and immigrant from Azerbaijan, he began in management consulting where automating workflows with VBA sparked his transition into software and entrepreneurship. He prefers solving practical problems end-to-end and has a pattern of launching small, founder-led startups (ExportHealth, Zeneca, Consistent) before tackling larger platform bets. Joe thrives on optimistic, principle-driven teams and focuses on developer productivity as a leverage point for impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (19)
user-interface10
front-end-development10
react10
back-end-development9
javascript9
typescript9
typescript-types9
backend9
typescripts9
apidoc8
user-experience8
api8
clojure8
clojure-cli8
postgresql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
instantdb/instant
Aug 2024 - Jul 2026
Instant is the best backend for AI-coded apps. You get auth, permissions, storage, presence, and streams — everything you need to ship apps your users will love.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:414 reviews, 597 PRs, 754 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Joe focused on implementing and enhancing features across both the front-end and back-end of the "instant" repository. Contributions include developing React components for the user interface, such as the avatar upload feature, and implementing features to enhance the dashboard. The user also worked on improving the API and backend functions that involved in managing user accounts, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's full stack. Additionally, the user improved the developer experience by updating the CLI and resolving issues in core functionalities.
aiauthbackend
nezaj/logs
Jan 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:422 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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