Oliver Gilan
Founder at Mesa
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolOliver Gilan is a founder and software engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems. He is currently leading Mesa, hiring full‑stack engineers and designers to build a performant, durable filesystem for agents with built-in versioning and access controls. His background includes payments infrastructure at Microsoft and engineering roles at Census, plus early-stage startup work where he helped raise seed funding and drive customer discovery. Oliver blends product-focused entrepreneurship from his South Park Commons fellowship with hands-on systems engineering, shipping infrastructure that supports real-world reliability and scale. Known jokingly as a "professional typist" on GitHub, he pairs pragmatic coding discipline with the founder's instinct for customer validation.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Founder Fellow, Founder Fellow at South Park Commons
Github Skills (53)
tailwind10
tailwindcss10
react10
radix9
feather-icons9
react-component-library9
radix-ui9
nextjs9
css9
sqlite9
nodejs9
database8
d18
feather8
mongodb8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OliverGilan/olivergilan.github.io
Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
Personal website
Contributions:185 commits, 5 PRs, 152 pushes in 1 year 2 months
reactnextjs
OliverGilan/jd
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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