YK Sugi

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 3 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Founder of CS Dojo with 1.9M YouTube subscribers.
  • Pioneered AI coding tools with significant user engagement.
  • Expert in developer advocacy and community building.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI and developer advocacy.

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Skills

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business IntelligenceC++ChatGPTData AnalyticsGitJavaJavaScriptLarge Language Models (LLM)Machine LearningManagementMatlabMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeProduct Management

About

YK is a seasoned professional with expertise in AI & LLMs, software development, data science, product management, and developer advocacy. His journey has led him to roles at several market-leading companies including Google and Microsoft, where he made significant contributions to software products serving a diverse user base. As the first developer advocate at leading startups, YK has spearheaded the creation of their developer relations programs, establishing key advocacy strategies that boosted product adoption, community engagement, as well as a strong social media presence. In addition to his roles in these prestigious companies, he is the founder of CS Dojo, an internationally recognized business dedicated to programming education with over 1.9 million subscribers on YouTube. He has also pioneered advancements in AI development, launching tools such as Kaguya, an open-source AI coding agent with ~1200 stars on GitHub, as well as SummarizeAnything, a ChatGPT plugin that served tens of thousands of users weekly. Additionally, he's the creator of the Claude Code tips repo with 2500+ stars: https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips

Experience

Eventual

Developer Experience Manager

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

  • The highlights from the first three months:
  • Merged 60 PRs, improved DX, unblocked engineers
  • Gave two talks - one in SF, the other in Vancouver
  • Created content that got 200,000+ total views
  • Helped attract 200+ people at a conference booth we ran
  • Witnessed an explosive growth of our open source repo (30+% in 17 days)
  • https://github.com/eventual-Inc/Daft/

Daft

Developer Experience Manager

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

Sourcegraph

3 roles

Developer Experience Manager (Office of the CTO)

Apr 2025Aug 2025 · 4 mos

  • Further pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI for coding and software engineering.
  • A 3-month recap:
  • Ideated the VS Code-to-terminal integration for our AI coding agent, proposing a specific combination of technologies (e.g., xterm-headless), which we have adopted
  • Proposed using a specific UI library on the CLI version of our AI coding agent, which we have started implementing
  • Spoke at many conferences, including a TEDx conference in Silicon Valley as well as one of the biggest tech conferences in Europe
  • Made significant contributions to the codebase to directly improve the developer experience
  • Published a YouTube video about vibe coding & agentic coding and received ~10K views
  • A 5-month recap:
  • Wrote & published a 3000 word, no-BS intro to agentic coding and got 3000+ newsletter subs
  • Gave a 20 min talk about how to create an AI QA engineer
  • Organized & hosted an event in San Francisco with 1100+ total signups, growing the SF Bay Area newsletter to ~5000 email subscribers

Lead AI Developer Advocate

Feb 2025Apr 2025 · 2 mos

  • Continuing to push the boundary of what's possible with AI for coding and software engineering.
  • 11-month recap:
  • Shipped an AI coding agent in collaboration with Product & Eng
  • Partnered with Salesforce, Cloudflare, and Chroma to host in-person events in San Francisco
  • At those events, we featured awesome speakers, including Docker, Netlify, and Gatsby Founders
  • As a result, we grew the SF Bay Area newsletter from 0 to 3300+ subs
  • Expanded my role from just social media marketing & DevRel marketing to also product & eng, speaking at major conferences, and a little bit of strategy

Senior AI Developer Advocate

May 2024Jan 2025 · 8 mos

  • Pushing the boundary of what's possible with AI for coding and software engineering.
  • A 9-month summary video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sp0AIcr5C_E
  • 9-month recap/highlights:
  • Helped double the social media mentions of the company & product in 3 months
  • Gained 1,000,000+ views and impressions on YouTube, LinkedIn, etc.
  • Facilitated partnerships with Google, Netlify, and Northeastern University
  • Spoke at 15+ events for 1500+ people about AI for coding
  • Grew the SF Bay Area email list from 0 to ~2300

Propel

Senior Developer Advocate

Jul 2023Feb 2024 · 7 mos

  • Responsible for the entire developer advocacy program at Propel, which includes SEO, documentation, social media marketing, event organizing, and open-source community management.
  • Some of my wins:
  • set the entire DevRel strategy and executed it from scratch
  • 10x'd the # stars on our main open-source repo
  • published a massive blog post for SEO and ranked within top 10
  • repurposed this blog post for Snowflake Quickstarts, where it's featured as the first quickstart of hundreds, gaining ~100K views / month
  • hosted several virtual events where thousands of people tuned in
  • organized our first in-person event in San Francisco with 100+ attendees
  • gained several signups and partnerships directly through in-person and virtual events
  • doubled our X/Twitter account's followers in <5 months with high engagements

Delv ai

Product Manager / Founding Engineer

Jun 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr · Remote

  • Led product & engineering efforts at Delv AI, an AI startup that assists science researchers in discovering insights from extensive literature.
  • Created an MVP that processes scientific papers and identifies relevant information.
  • Grew the user base from 0 to 100+ paying users and 5 B2B pilot users.

Replit

Developer Advocate / Editor-in-Chief

Mar 2021May 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Led the social & brand marketing efforts.
  • Twitter: Grew the official account from <20,000 followers to >40,000 in <1 year. This was a 3x increase in the velocity of the account growth.
  • YouTube: Gained 200,000 total views on our official account in ~15 months, which was 10x more than the total gained views prior to my joining & leading the team.
  • Sponsored YouTube videos: Gained 1M+ total views on sponsored YouTube videos.

Pluralsight

Author

Mar 2017Aug 2017 · 5 mos · Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area

  • Published an online video course, "Introduction to Data Visualization with Python" on Pluralsight.

Lynda.com

Author

Jan 2017Mar 2017 · 2 mos

  • Published an online video course, Get Ready for Your Coding Interview, which has
  • received 200,000+ views on Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning.

Linkedin

LinkedIn Learning Author

Jan 2017Mar 2017 · 2 mos

  • Published an online video course, Get Ready for Your Coding Interview, which has
  • received 200,000+ views on Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning.

Google

Software Developer

Apr 2016May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area

  • Designed & developed significant features on Google Chrome’s internal data analytics dashboard.
  • Languages used: Python, JavaScript, SQL

Cs dojo

Founder

Mar 2016Apr 2025 · 9 yrs 1 mo · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Built CS Dojo, a programming education YouTube channel that has grown to 1.95 million+ subscribers.
  • Grew three X/Twitter accounts (@ykdojo, @csdojo404, and @spacesdojo) from 0 to a combined follower base of 170K+.
  • Cultivated an active Discord community of 3800+ developers and techies.
  • Developed Kaguya, an open-source local coding assistant with over 1200+ stars on GitHub.
  • Created SummarizeAnything, a ChatGPT plugin that summarizes content from various sources, which handled about 50,000 requests per week.
  • Have organized CS Dojo Vancouver, a premier tech community in Vancouver.

Microsoft

2 roles

Program Manager (internship)

May 2015Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Managed a project to develop a feature within Microsoft Dynamics CRM that allows users to easily and effortlessly log their business expenses.

Data Scientist (internship)

Jun 2014Aug 2014 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Helped product managers at Yammer make better decisions by conducting a statistical analysis to better understand existing content’s effect on user engagements.

Education

The University of British Columbia

Statistics

Jan 2013Jan 2015

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