Samir Roy runs an incubator that specializes in the creation and launch of captivating consumer-oriented product innovations built on cutting-edge technologies.
Currently building Poonji. See more at poonji.io.
Poonji empowers retail investors to effortlessly craft and implement complex strategies across their entire portfolio. The AI-driven Research Analyst and Quant facilitate the orchestration of dynamic strategies that are continuously monitored and executed by a Daemon program.
In an earlier time we used to make /games.
Endless Traffic is a casual arcade game for the iPhone and Apple Watch where the player must manage rowdy rush hour traffic that will intensify over time and keep the intersection clear of accidents.
satisfied players
Experience
Samir is an entrepreneur and has been a senior engineering leader at several early-stage technology companies. He has worked on product and engineering at startups through various stages of growth and helped founders navigate acquisitions, fund raising, and accelerators, including Shark Tank and YCombinator.
- Consulting Engineer @ Benepass
(YCombinator W20) - Engineering Lead @ Collage
($80M yearly revenue, acquired by Foreground) - Head of Engineering @ Toymail
(founding engineer, YCombinator W16, Shark Tank S08E17) - Founder @ WooHoo
(live fantasy sports platform, acquired by TransStadia) - VP Engineering @ KiwiTech
(founding engineer, helped grow from 0 to 300+ engineers) - Consulting Engineer @ Fingerprint Play
(acquired by Sandbox) - Lead Engineer @ Librify
(acquired by Scribd) - Lead Engineer @ Kloof
(acquired by American Kennel Club) - Started Career @ Accenture
(worked on world's largest enterprise mobile deployment)
Education
While growing up in Delhi, wrote first program in Logo to control a turtle to draw a house, and was forever hooked! Won national coding competitions throughout high school and beat out participants from higher grades to represent India in international contests. Went on to graduate from the University of Virginia with a degree in Computer Science.
Undergraduate thesis on
non‑photorealistic rendering:
Style Spheres
Open Source
Some day we hope to contribute to some meaningful open source projects but until then we have some small stuff open for anyone to stumble upon.
We put a lot of love into our Neovim configuration and have documented it via comments for others to adopt. You can find the Lua source here. We even created our very own color scheme called Shinjuku.
This website is open source with the repo located here. It is built using awesome open source technologies like Typescript, React, & Gatsby, and is hosted on Vercel.
That's not all! We welcome you to check out all our repos to see if something piques your interest.