Summary
Kumar Abhirup is a founder-engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building product-first web and Web3 applications, currently co-founding two YC S24 companies focused on AI-driven legal lead qualification and creative legacy tools. He combines full-stack craftsmanship—from smart contracts and D3 visualizations to React/Node production systems—with product and growth responsibilities, having shipped fast MVPs and native apps across multiple startups. Notable work includes authoring and testing ERC-721 and marketplace contracts on Ethereum, implementing CRDT-based collaborative editing, and relaunching an iOS/web client that drove thousands of installs. Based in Shanghai and comfortable operating across technical, product, and growth roles, he’s equally at home refactoring backend GRPC services as designing UX flows. Colleagues describe him as someone who “happy work everyday,” reflecting a pragmatic, mission-oriented approach to building durable products.
9 years of coding experience