Tim Lenardo
Founder at Onit, Inc
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Lenardo is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer apps, growth platforms, and startup studios from San Francisco. He has shipped high-impact consumer features at Instagram (including Boomerang and multiple signature filters) and later led product and engineering initiatives across startups like Liftoff Mobile, Jetfuel, and Takeoff Labs. Tim now leads Onit, where he’s translating deep engineering experience into an AI-driven tooling play for talking about code. His background spans security and systems work at Facebook to mobile growth and influencer economy products, giving him a rare cross-section of product, growth, and platform expertise. He combines hands-on shipping ability with founder-level strategy, often launching products first in stealth or hackathon mode and scaling them to millions of users. Outside product work he’s driven interdisciplinary projects from biomedical research to sustainable design, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity beyond pure engineering.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Cornell UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Thomas S. Wootton High School
Github Skills (29)
admob10
google-mobile-ads9
ads9
lip-sync9
deepfake9
mobile-ads9
deep-learning8
image-generation8
audio8
flux8
ai8
sdk8
stable-diffusion8
google8
pytorch8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
reallabs/ios-take-home
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
synth-inc/onit
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
Onit MacOS client
Contributions:50 reviews, 100 PRs, 155 pushes in 2 months
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