akbar kamoldinov

hi, i'm akbar. an electrical engineering student at mizzou, originally from uzbekistan. right now i'm in mountain view, silicon valley, working as a software engineer at tensor ai and helping build chatvlm. before coming here, i spent the summer at gft inc helping design substations, part of the electric grid that gets power to your home, factories, data centers, and so on. getting to play with very high voltage equipment was pretty fun.

outside of class and work, i build a lot. it started when i got tired of grinding internship applications, spending hours every day, so i built an agent that applies to jobs and does cold outreach for me. twelve days later it landed me the gft internship, and that agent became hiroo, the startup i'm still building.

beyond hiroo, i experiment with ai a lot, pushing it to its limits and making tons of fun side projects, following paul graham's advice to live in the future and build what seems interesting.

i also read a lot of great writing and share the best of it on my weekly substack. like they say, you learn the most from the greats.

i built an ai version of myself on top of my second brain. it knows what i'm building, how i work, and most of what i've written. ask it anything, or use it to get a feel for how i think. chat with akbargpt →

these are the pictures i find inspiring and useful, and i keep them on my computer.