Josh Cho
Founder at Fren
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Cho is a founder and software engineer based in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building systems and AI-driven applications. Currently leading Fren, he focuses on shipping LLM apps and experiments that explore practical uses of large language models. A Stanford-trained computer scientist specializing in systems and AI, he blends academic grounding with hands-on product development. Josh is an active open-source practitioner—his GitHub brands him as "a spawning pool of llm apps" and surfaces frequent exploratory projects rather than a single flagship repo. He brings an entrepreneur’s bias for iteration and rapid prototyping, often turning research ideas into usable developer tooling. Outside work, his online presence on GitHub and X highlights a steady stream of experiments that reveal an appetite for unconventional approaches to LLM engineering.
10 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Systems/AI, Computer Science, Systems/AI at Stanford University
Github Skills (196)
padding10
transclusion10
vim10
spacemacs10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
api10
emacs10
tailwind10
editor9
daisyui9
tailwindui9
component-library9
lua9
nvim9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
joshcho/ChatGPT.el
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
ChatGPT in Emacs
Contributions:63 commits, 22 PRs, 170 pushes in 2 months
emacschatgpt
joshcho/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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