Henry Shi
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarHenry Shi is a product-focused software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable consumer and AI-first products from startup to growth stage. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, he works across product, engineering and research on emerging model capabilities while also co-founding and advising Super.com, a profitable fintech/ecommerce platform serving millions of users. He mixes hands-on systems and ML experience from roles at Google, LendUp and Bloomberg with a track record of founding startups, scaling backend infrastructure and shipping data-driven products. An active angel investor and advisor, Henry backs AI-native founders and writes about applied AI and founder journeys, curating the LeanAILeaderboard and publishing on Substack. Based in San Francisco and trained in computer science and machine learning, he pairs academic rigor with practical, revenue-focused execution. Notably, he balances deep technical work on AGI-adjacent models with operator experience driving $100M+ revenue businesses.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (37)
transformers10
phone-number-input10
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
language-model10
chatgpt10
python10
attention-mechanism10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
llm10
tokenizer10
deep-learning10
ai10
generative-ai10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
henrythe9th/AI-Crash-Course
Jan 2025 - Feb 2026
AI Crash Course to help busy builders catch up to the public frontier of AI research in 2 weeks
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
ai
henrythe9th/official-lean-ai-native-leaderboard
Feb 2025 - Apr 2026
Official Lean AI Native Companies Leaderboard: The Future of 1-Person Billion-Dollar Startups
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
ai
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