Firebender

About

Firebender is a free and privacy-first Android Studio AI assistant. One-click install from the IntelliJ plugin marketplace to your IDE. It has context over your codebase and lets you use the best models for asking questions, debugging code, and generating code snippets. Unlike other AI assistants with outdated Android knowledge, Firebender continuously updates its knowledge base with the latest Android SDKs, libraries, and best practices, providing more accurate and relevant assistance for Android development.

Founders

Aman GottumukkalaFounder

Aman is the cofounder of Firebender, an AI-powered coding assistant built exclusively for Android Studio. Before Firebender, Aman was a 2020 Kleiner Perkins Eng fellow and the 3rd engineer at Paradigm, where he built trading and internal data infrastructure from scratch, automated Ethereum derivative trading strategies yielding 20%, and published novel zero-knowledge cryptography research. He interned at Google, Instagram, Twitch, and Microsoft in college.

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Kevin TangCo-founder

Previously, Kevin was a software engineer at Two Sigma where he architected and built service infrastructure for modeling, trading, and engineering teams (scale ~10K CPUs, ~1PB RAM). Kevin learned to program by creating Roblox games in high school; one of his games had 2,000 concurrent players and featured on the front page. He plays pick up basketball at Mission Rec Center on saturdays. He lives in NEMA near Market and Van Ness.

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