julie shi
builder. most recently shipped a cloud agent platform at coinbase — claude bot (10k+ merged prs) and background agent (100k+ sessions, 2× wow). now at uc berkeley sky lab — hive space, rLLM. oakland, ca.
interests
- Financial inclusion.
- How AI helps ordinary people — and civilization.
- How intelligence and internal knowledge should be distributed.
- How do we make AI smarter with logical reasoning — could be a model-layer problem or a harness problem (which later gets internalized by the model).
- Poker.
- Anything trusted by math, cryptography and economics.
- Viral marketing, gamified virality.
- How to build persisted roads around AI — payments, identity, trust, shared context, etc.
- Zuzalu & digital nomad life.
timeline
2025 → 2026
coinbase — cloud agent platform, founding team.
claude bot — async slack/linear-triggered coding agent. contributed to 10k+ merged prs internally.
background agent — led observability and runtime work. 100k+ sessions ytd, 2× wow growth.
2025 → now
uc berkeley sky lab
hive space — product lead. a human-agent coworking platform: shared tasks, context, tools, runtime state.
rLLM — core contributor (5k+ stars). aws strands integration — sdk + rollout integration to make rl training scalable.
2022 → 2025
satoshi inc — founder & tech lead.
onchain trading assistant — multi-agent ai trading. 700k+ transactions.
fhe poker — the world's first fhe-native onchain poker game (fhesummit.com).
cb.id & uni.eth subdomains — onchain subdomain identity for coinbase & uniswap. 2m+ users.
dynamic-lp lottery — onchain lottery with dynamic liquidity provisioning. raised $5m.
everything bagel — consumer ai for personal finance. techstars '23.
uscis filing assistant — ocr/ai assistant for immigration filings.
2021
aws — sde intern. ec2 telemetry & reserved-instance auto-provisioning across 22 regions ($100m+ tx).
2021
pony.ai — algorithm intern. game-theoretic longitudinal motion planning for l4 autonomous vehicles.
2018 → 2022
usc — b.s. computer science, summa cum laude. minor in mathematics and entrepreneurship.
2015 → 2018
shenzhen middle school — shenzhen, china.
writings
- solo founder playbook — terminal tool, ai skills distilled from 101 founder interviews.
- awesome-ai-auth — curated catalog for securing ai agent authentication.
- agentic payment — long-form article on x.
- xhs post — unconventional thoughts from running one of sf's largest openclaw hacks (ski in the morning, surf in the afternoon).