Ashot Petrosian
Founder at Footage
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAshot Petrosian is a seasoned product engineering leader and founder with 17 years building consumer and creator-facing platforms from startup prototypes to scaled products. Based in San Francisco, he has led engineering and product at companies ranging from Facebook—where he helped kickstart Stories and event ticketing—to multiple startups he co-founded, including Scenery and Vello. He combines hands-on system architecture (real-time multiplayer, local-first sync, canvas-based video editing) with go-to-market chops, having grown Vello to $100k ARR in six months. His work spans distributed systems, ML-driven automation, and collaborative UX for teams and documents, often delivering features that predate larger rivals. Known for shaping engineering culture and hiring standards, he repeatedly turns ambiguous product visions into tangible, ship-ready software. An entrepreneurial generalist, he blends deep technical fluency with product intuition and early-market execution.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (103)
accessibility9
redux9
react9
colors9
reducer9
rust8
ai8
laravel8
component-library8
ui-components8
gateway8
tailwindcss8
nvidia8
instagram7
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
iamcal/desktopr
Mar 2009 - Apr 2009
Contributions:12 commits in 7 days
codecast-sh/codecast
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
See, steer, and remember every coding agent session — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini. Team memory, live steering from any device, line-level agent attribution.
Contributions:111 pushes, 7 branches, 1 tag in 3 months
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