Firebender

Most powerful coding agent for Android engineers

Y CombinatorWinter 2024ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignArtificial IntelligenceAI Assistant

What they do

Problem

Android engineers spend significant time debugging, understanding large codebases, and implementing features while keeping up with rapidly changing SDKs and best practices.

Solution

Firebender is an IntelliJ/Android Studio coding agent plugin that uses AI models with deep IDE, codebase, and emulator/preview tooling context to answer questions, debug, and generate features.

Who it's for

Android developers and Android engineering teams using IntelliJ-based IDEs such as Android Studio.

Founders

Aman Gottumukkala

Founder

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 Tang

Co-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.

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