Thariq Shihipar

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 8 mos experience
AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded and scaled a gaming platform to a million users.
  • Led AI interpretability research with top researchers.
  • Developed a notification center for the web, acquired by HubSpot.
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Skills

Core Skills

User Growth StrategyTeam ManagementAi ResearchData VisualizationAnalytics DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentResearch DevelopmentNews VisualizationAcademic PublishingSales Software DevelopmentProduct ManagementDistributed ComputingWeb Development

Other Skills

Claude CodeGaming Platform DevelopmentDiscord EngagementTikTok MarketingAI InterpretabilityData ExtractionConsultingOpen Access PublishingHealth TrackingDesignFull-stack EngineeringInteraction DesignLinux ProgrammingWeb CrawlingReact.js

About

Building Claude Code at Anthropic! Formerly a YC founder.

Experience

15 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Anthropic

Member of Technical Staff

Jun 2025Present · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Working on the Claude Code team.
Claude Code

Goodfire

AI Research Fellowship

Dec 2024Mar 2025 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Worked on applied AI research in AI Interpretability with top AI researchers.
  • Focused on applied autointerp and surfacing relevant features from a model. Built a tool to visualize and help people understand interpretability.
AI ResearchAI InterpretabilityData Visualization

South park commons

Member

Jul 2024Feb 2025 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Exploring, building.
  • Consulting on AI product and synthetic data.

Y combinator

YC W20

Jan 2020Apr 2020 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Part of the YC W20 Batch making Multiverse.

Multiverse

Founder & CEO

Aug 2019Oct 2025 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Remote

  • Built a YC backed, Series A gaming platform company and raised $17.5MM for it (www.playmultiverse.com).
  • Scaled to a million users and developed a growth strategy that featured a highly engaged Discord (50k members at peak) and Tiktok (4MM+ likes in 2023).
  • Managed a highly diverse team of 30+, working directly across the entire company including Engineering, Product, Design, Art and Marketing.
Gaming Platform DevelopmentUser Growth StrategyTeam ManagementDiscord EngagementTikTok Marketing

Edgeout.gg (acquired) by blitz.gg

Founder

Apr 2018Jun 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Built & sold analytics for professional league of legends teams. Sold to TSM.
  • Built a memory injection tool that was used to extract data from active games and analyzed it.

Rocket insights (now dept®)

Early Stage Product Developer

Oct 2017Apr 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Consulting for mid-sized companies that needed to build out products from scratch.
  • Worked directly with leadership to understand business goals and built product from start to finish to help meet those goals.
Analytics DevelopmentData Extraction

Mit media lab

2 roles

Research Scientist

Sep 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr · Cambridge

  • Research Scientist working on Open Access Publishing, via development of PubPub (pubpub.org).
Product DevelopmentConsulting

Graduate Student

Sep 2014Aug 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Cambridge

  • During my master's degree, I focused on news visualizations (newsclouds.media.mit.edu), personal health tracking and modernizing academic publishing.
  • My thesis was focused on academic publishing and focused on the development of PubPub (pubpub.org), a platform to drive these modernizations.
Open Access PublishingResearch Development

Hubspot

Software Engineer

Jun 2013Jul 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Cambridge, MA

  • Helped spin up the Signals teams (now Hubspot CRM), leading HubSpot's push into sales software.
News VisualizationHealth TrackingAcademic Publishing

University of toronto

2 roles

Engineering Design TA

Promoted

Jan 2013May 2013 · 4 mos

  • ESC102 - Engineering Design is a first year Engineering Science design course where students select a problem in the Toronto community and propose and develop solutions. The course culminates in a showcase where students present their solutions to the general public.
  • Responsibilities as a TA included leading two tutorials, pushing students to grow as engineering designers and evaluating them on the quality and credibility of their design.
Product DevelopmentDesignFull-stack Engineering

Human-Computer Interaction Research Assistant

Sep 2012May 2013 · 8 mos

  • Worked with Professor Daniel Wigdor on an undergraduate thesis.
  • Created the concept, developed an app to test and gather data and ran naturalistic user studies for 2 weeks with 20 people.

Chime

Co-founder, Full-stack Engineer

May 2012Jun 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Co-founded Chime (chimeapp.com), a notification center for the web. Worked on the product end-to-end, doing some design and mockups and writing front and backend code.
  • Covered by a number of news outlets including TechCrunch, TheNextWeb and LifeHacker.
  • Acquired by Hubspot, May 2013.
Sales Software Development

Yelp

Product Manager Intern

May 2012Aug 2012 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • PMed highly visible features for Yelp across multiple platforms: mobile, web, business owners, etc.
  • Took part in the entire product management cycle with a focus on interaction and usability.

Amd

Software Engineering Intern

May 2011May 2012 · 1 yr · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Working extensively with creating and managing Distributed Computing tasks across a large server farm with hundreds of cores. Working extensively with Linux and programming in C, C++, Perl & Ruby.
Product ManagementInteraction Design

Uoftbooks.ca

Co-Founder & Lead Developer

May 2011Jan 2012 · 8 mos

  • Came up with the idea and vision for uoftbooks.ca, worked closely to develop the design and identity. Coded large parts of the back end, including a web crawling engine to gather and combine information about books.
Distributed ComputingLinux Programming

University of toronto - taglab

Research Assistant

May 2009Aug 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Worked as an undergraduate Research Assistant at the Technology for Aging Gracefully Lab (http://taglab.utoronto.ca/), played large parts in the coding and design of two research projects.
Web DevelopmentWeb Crawling

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Master's Degree — Media Lab

Jan 2014Jan 2016

University of Toronto

BASc — Engineering Science Major in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2013

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