Vivek R

Founder / technical leader focused on AI-driven developer tools and security: Vivek co-founded winfunc (YC S24) and is the CTO driving Asterisk — an autonomous agent that finds and helps fix security and logic issues in codebases. His GitHub and personal site show multiple winfunc repos (opcode, blockoli, stackwalk) and product work focused on code indexing, embeddings, and agent integrations. ycombinator+3

Open-source contributor and GSoC alum with multimedia / systems experience: As a Google Summer of Code scholar with the GNOME/Pitivi project, he implemented an OpenCV/GStreamer tracker element and integrated UI work for object/face tracking and blurring; his personal site documents the project and other systems experiments (timers, simple shells, Rust projects). wordpress+1

Platforms and infrastructure background: Prior roles include Platforms Engineer at Chorus One and Infrastructure Consultant at Thoughtworks where he worked on distributed systems, validator/platform operations (Chorus One) and infrastructure/cloud/DevOps consulting (Thoughtworks). These roles complement his founder work by grounding him in scalable platform and operational concerns. peerlist+1

Student leadership and community engagement: While at Government Model Engineering College he was active in FOSS (FOSSMEC), served in college entrepreneurship leadership (IEDC MEC CTO), and was a Millennium Fellow (Class of 2019) working on student community projects such as MEC MUN Society. millenniumfellows+2