about

Hi, I'm Taira.

Born in Tokyo, dropped out of middle school to pursue education in Switzerland and United States. Now based in San Francisco, working on AI stuff.

$ now

I joined Proliferate (YC S25) as an employee #1, building harness-agnostic open source workspace for coding agents.

$ previsouly

I co-founded Smartbase with a backing from Y Combinator. Before that, I worked on inference infra at AWS SageMaker / Bedrock and studied Computer Science at UC Berkeley.

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