Junaid Ackroyd

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States2 yrs 10 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Founded multiple AI and SaaS products.
Expert in building distributed systems.
Strong background in AI and machine learning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong AI capabilities.

Contact

junaidack@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsAi AgentsSaasFrontend Development

Other Skills

Large Language Models (LLM)PostgreSQLGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)CouchDBTailwind CSSVercelSupabaseOpenAI APIExa ApiWeb ScrapingStripeResendNext.jsNode.js

About

Founding GTM Engineer @ Weave - building software, automating pipeline generation, and selling. Previous work: Mendota.ai - an AI investment analyst aggregating real-time market data, research, and news Dreambody - an AI fitness & nutrition iOS app Previously a Software Engineer at Post Fiat (on-chain AI agents on XRPL) and The Home Depot (distributed systems supporting 2,300+ retail locations). B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

10 mos

Average Tenure

4 mos

Current Experience

Weave (yc w25)

Founding GTM Engineer

Feb 2026 – Present · 4 mos · San Francisco, CA · On-site

Building software, automating pipeline generation, and selling

Distributed SystemsAI AgentsLarge Language Models (LLM)PostgreSQLGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)+21

Agentic software

Founder/Engineer

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Founded and built multiple zero-to-one AI and SaaS products from concept through production launch
Built Mendota.ai, an AI investment analyst that aggregates real-time market data, research, and news using LLM-based systems and financial APIs
Solely built and launched Dreambody, an AI-powered fitness and nutrition iOS app (SwiftUI + OpenAI text/vision)
Launched a marketplace platform connecting top Substack finance writers with institutional clients; secured commitments from 6 of the top 100 writers

Large Language Models (LLM)OpenAI APISwiftUIAI AgentsSaaS

Post fiat

Software Engineer

Dec 2024 – May 2025 · 5 mos · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid

Built production features for crypto-native product serving 2,000+ beta users in a 3-person engineering team
Developed Corbanu Node, an on-chain AI agent deployed on XRPL that analyzes assets using vector search and aggregates expert insights
Contributed to backend services, application logic, and production system stability

Python (Programming Language)OpenAI APIAI Agents

The home depot

2 roles

Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Contributed to Monarch Cache, a distributed replication system enabling near real-time data synchronization across 2,300+ retail locations
Improved backend reliability and participated in production incident response and on-call rotations

JavaPython (Programming Language)Distributed Systems