Josh Weinstein
Co-Founder at Angel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJosh Weinstein is a founder, investor, and product strategist with 15 years of experience building and advising early-stage tech ventures and investing in 25+ companies. He has founded multiple startups—scaling a venture-backed consumer social platform that pivoted into a video streaming product used by clients from Viacom to the Mexican President’s Office—and created a Google.org–funded survey methodology adopted by organizations like Wikipedia and The Washington Post. As founder of CannaGather he built New York’s largest legal cannabis entrepreneurial community, running monthly events that attracted members of Congress, CEOs, athletes, and celebrities and expanded nationally. His background spans hands-on engineering leadership (Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Postgres) and business development roles including a stint at Palantir, paired with FINRA Series 82 and 63 registration. A Princeton graduate, former student body president and chess master, he blends analytical rigor, product intuition, and a taste for high-performance software—summed up by his stated mission to “write the fastest software in the world.”
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese language, Chinese language at Beijing Normal UniversityThe Dalton SchoolStuyvesant High SchoolA.B., East Asian Studies, Chinese, A.B., East Asian Studies, Chinese at Princeton University
English, Chinese, French
Stackoverflow
2,868reputation
329kreached
65answers
75questions
Github Skills (138)
cargo10
cpp10
rust-lang10
twitter10
sdk10
compiler10
rust10
cross-platform10
twitter-api10
aws-sdk10
package-manager10
mongodb10
aws10
syntax-highlighting10
nosql9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jweinst1/Oblivion
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 304 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
artart-of
jweinst1/stein
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.