- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2026
- How they joined
- With Poke
- Before Poke
- Jane StreetSoftware Engineering
- Status
- Current
- Current role is Member of Technical Staff at The Interaction Company of California.
- Public headline says "working on poke.com".
- 🍳 about me: https://yok.dev; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning.
- Previous roles include Member of Technical Staff at The Interaction Company of California; Software Engineering at Jane Street; Curriculum Developer at Art of Problem Solving; Software Engineering Intern at Robinhood; Teaching Assistant, Grader at Art of Problem Solving; Software Engineer I at Fiveable; Founder at Bobcat Notify; Freelance Web Developer at Self-employed.
- Location is Palo Alto, California, United States.
first hire poke.com
Infrastructure
Developing engaging and challenging problem sets, practice exams, and handouts for AoPS's premier online competitive coding training program, CodeWOOT.
Backend -- Options Platform Team
Assist twice a week in teaching online classes of 20-50 students answering questions, guiding students, and helping debug. Provide detailed logical and stylistic feedback to students' advanced math and Python solutions. Have graded introductory (Pre-Algebra, Geometry, Counting and Probability, etc.) to advanced (Calculus, WOOT, etc.) homework.
Built and deployed a global network of servers to publish messages in under 200ms to over 7,500 concurrent users globally. Developed complex web scraping bots and websites to successfully gather information requested by clients quickly and accurately.
Boba Club
with devin voice we scraped a ton of google reviews to find the pareto frontier of food depending on where you are https://t.co/ipKgNPSY2g https://t.co/v0lzUSBoVM
one of the few infra providers that has not gone down the entire time we've used them at poke it's actually my second time using @fat and @mdo's products, i learned to code by building websites with bootstrap css 😭
poke humans completely organized my bonfire last week https://t.co/uTGyOcw4Um
the first website i ever made was with https://t.co/ztNaLxKgAv and now poke knows how to build with websockets too! websockets and persisted databases are now supported on poke sites on all plans: https://t.co/sAtvv26sSC
poke email notifications are now better than ever before. very sorry for the whiplash between too many and too few pokes over the last week if you enjoyed the ride we now have an early access program with even more bugs poke dot com / nightly https://t.co/qWNhKoHlAw
As a result of US government directive, you may have noticed your Poke response quality decrease. We'll update our status page as the situation progresses. We're working with our partners at @vercel to route your requests to other competent models.
crazy design/product talent for such an early neolab, so bullish
it's already up 10 minutes later https://t.co/RQTKt63TPB
Introducing FrontierBoba: a boba eval that raises the bar for speed & quality. Each rating took 40+ reviews by leading @DoorDash customers. Shops sell sugary drinks that taste fine but aren’t worth the wait. Our eval is first to measure: would you actually order this boba again?
i have a 9am hype automation let's go samyok time to build https://t.co/vUM7LnHfR7
guess the benchmark https://t.co/DUzXkuqTR8
