Human Thomas

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States6 yrs 2 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered AI-driven autonomous business models.
  • Led development of high-impact AI products.
  • Expert in AI engineering and product management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and MarTech expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentData EngineeringProduct ManagementAi ResearchSoftware EngineeringCybersecurity

Other Skills

AI Agent DevelopmentLLM System ArchitectureMentoringEmotion Control SystemsVideo Editing LLMData InfrastructureLLM Fine-tuningGoogle Ads AI TrainingTeam ManagementReinforcement LearningContinual LearningMultiagent SystemsNeural NetworksCryptographyHardware Security

About

I'm just the guy signing the legal stuff for Thomas (YC P26): the first YC-backed AI founder. Thomas is a virtual human who starts, runs, and grows his own companies on the internet.

Experience

6 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 1 mo
Average Tenure
3 mos
Current Experience

Thomas (yc p26)

Human Thomas (literally my role)

Mar 2026Present · 3 mos · San Francisco, CA

  • Thomas is the first YC-backed AI founder: a virtual human who starts, runs, and grows his own companies on the internet.
  • I'm just the guy signing the legal stuff.

Sonatic

Lead AI Engineer

Sep 2025Nov 2025 · 2 mos

  • building a general MacOS AI Agent, backed by a16z speedrun
  • I joined pre-product, and built the entire LLM agentic system, including:
  • in-house browser use (did beat browser-use.com accuracy on internal testing! thanks to a novel technique I developed leveraging code generation)
  • computer use (CUA)
  • MCPs clients and servers
  • memory / retrieval systems
  • also mentored 2 junior engineers! :)
AI Agent DevelopmentLLM System ArchitectureMentoringAI EngineeringSoftware Development

Arcads ai

Senior AI Engineer

Apr 2025Sep 2025 · 5 mos

  • building an AI UGC Ads generation product, $1M annual revenue per employee!
  • I built:
  • emotion control for Arcads AI actors -> led to Arcads most viral feature launch of 2025 (on linkedin)
  • v1 of the video editing LLM agent
  • the entire data infrastructure of the company
  • I also started building the AI team (by sourcing, interviewing, and hiring our 2nd AI Engineer)! :)
Emotion Control SystemsVideo Editing LLMData InfrastructureAI EngineeringData Engineering

Deep marketer (acq. by arcads)

Co-Founder

Apr 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr · San Francisco, CA

  • building an entirely autonomous google ads agency, backed by Entrepreneur First
  • I worked on:
  • finetuning an LLM on tens of thousands of scraped quality website designs (-> surpassed existing LLMs design quality by a lot, near 100% preference rate)
  • training a google ads ai agent to maximize Ads ROI (with a novel method to efficiently teach textual human feedback to the model)
  • some more facts:
  • managed $1M annualized ad spend (entirely automatically! with +2x average ROI (not ROAS))
  • backed by Entrepreneur First & Transpose Platform
  • acquired by Arcads.ai (one of the best AI Ads companies in the market | $1M rev / employee)
  • shout out to Lucas Marandat, my amazing cofounder now at Mistral ; and to all of our team: Lanzelot Moll, Nicolas Bellot, Gildas Garin-Hameline!
LLM Fine-tuningGoogle Ads AI TrainingTeam ManagementAI EngineeringProduct Management

Entrepreneur first

Founder in Residence

Sep 2023Apr 2024 · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Backed by top founders including Demis Hassabis (DeepMind + Nobel Prize Winner), Alexandr Wang (Scale AI), Patrick and John Collison (Stripe), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (Monzo), Nat Friedman.

Irt saint exupéry

AI Researcher

Sep 2021Jun 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Toulouse, Occitanie, France

  • Reinforcement learning + continual learning (model training & evaluation). Applied to the space/satellite industry (for Thalès/Airbus).

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Independent AI Researcher

Oct 2020Aug 2021 · 10 mos

  • Leader of a finalist team at the NeurIPS 2020 MineRL competition
  • Contributor on Neural MMO: OpenAI's first Massively Multiagent Environment for RL Research
Reinforcement LearningContinual LearningAI Research

Jexlprod

Software Engineer

Jun 2019Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Developed internal software products for major french companies (+100k employees).
Multiagent SystemsNeural NetworksAI Research

Quarkslab

Cybersecurity Intern

Jun 2017Jun 2017 · 0 mo

  • Cryptography, hardware security and software obfuscation internship.
  • Was invited to the annual conference of the company, meeting international partners and attending technical talks.
Software DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Ensibs

Cybersecurity Intern

Oct 2015Oct 2015 · 0 mo

  • Pentesting & web dev internship.
CryptographyHardware SecurityCybersecurity

Education

Y Combinator

CentraleSupélec

Master of Engineering - MEng — Applied Mathematics

a16z speedrun

Jan 2025Jan 2025

IUT de Vannes

Associate's degree — Computer Science

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