Summary
Josh Dong is a founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building AI-first products and secure healthcare platforms from seed to scale. As Co-founder and CEO of Temi and former Founding Engineer and Head of Security at Ambience Healthcare, he proved LLM product-market fit in healthcare pre-GPT and established enterprise security practices enabling contracts with major U.S. health systems. He led Rev.com's voice R&D from founding engineer to senior manager, deploying the first speech model API trained on over 1M hours of audio and shifting the company toward AI-native products. Comfortable across frontend, backend, research, and infrastructure, Josh has a track record of solo-engineering critical early-stage systems and then growing teams and processes. Based in San Francisco with dual technical degrees from UT Austin and time at Korea University, he blends rigorous engineering with product-driven entrepreneurship. Outside work he describes himself as an NLP practitioner who moonlights as a "pastamancer," reflecting a quirky mix of deep technical focus and creative off-hours pursuits.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Computer Science, Computer Science at Korea University
English, Chinese, Korean