Josh Payne
Founder at Autograph
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Payne is a founder and technical leader with nine years of experience building AI-first companies and products, currently leading Coframe—backed by Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman—to drive measurable web conversion gains for enterprise customers. He co-founded Autograph (a $2B+ unicorn) and AccessBell (acquired by Tata), was on Marlin’s founding team, and blends startup execution with research rigour from Stanford (BS, MS, MBA). A prolific author on 20+ papers and patents, he also teaches LLM and code-generation topics as a guest lecturer at Stanford and built early, influential tooling like GPT-Migrate (previously #1 on GitHub Trending) and Coffee. Josh pairs deep hands-on engineering—full-stack development, tooling for automated codebase migrations, and production AI—with product instincts that have driven real revenue and large strategic exits. Based in Palo Alto, he brings a rare combination of academic credibility, startup-scale delivery, and creative instincts honed as a professional percussionist in San Francisco orchestras.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMS, Computer Science (AI), 4.0, MS, Computer Science (AI), 4.0 at Stanford University School of EngineeringBachelor of Science (honors), Math & Computational Science, minor in Music, Bachelor of Science (honors), Math & Computational Science, minor in Music at Stanford University
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
code-migration10
python10
dockers9
command-line9
cli9
openapi9
fastapi9
command-line-interface9
docker9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
joshpxyne/gpt-migrate
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Easily migrate your codebase from one framework or language to another.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 PRs, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Josh's contributions center around migrating a codebase from one framework/language to another. The commits demonstrate the development of a command-line tool, likely using Typer, to facilitate this migration process. The user implemented features to handle various steps in the migration, including Dockerfile creation, OpenAPI spec generation, and API endpoint porting. This involved writing and modifying code in Python (likely the source), generating Javascript code (likely the target), and interacting with a Docker environment.
StanfordAIR/vision
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 15 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 months
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