Steve Huynh
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Read the table and play the hand · read the table and play the hand ·
Ship it on the river · ship it on the river · ship it on the river ·
K♥︎Experience
K♥︎ · Experience
Tables I've sat at
Software Engineer First employee
Forgepoint · Nov 2025 – Present
Raised a $9.8M seed round led by Primary and a16z speedrun, with angels from OpenAI, Brex, Xwing and Betterment.
Forward Deployed Engineer
Lyra · Oct 2025 – Present
Shipping products for YC and a16z-backed startups.
Co-Founder & CTO
Big Brain · Jul 2024 – Present
Helping students get into their dream high schools.
Software Engineer Second employee
Userdoc · Mar 2025 – Nov 2025
Spec Driven Development.
AI Software Engineer
AiLECS Lab, Monash University · Mar 2024 – Nov 2024
Operationalising AI Models for the Australian Federal Police.
Software Engineer Intern
Australian Federal Police · Nov 2023 – Feb 2024
Building tools for law enforcement and community safety.
Q♦︎Education
Q♦︎ · Education
Where I learned the odds
Monash University
Bachelor of Computer Science (Data Science) · 2021 – 2024
Algorithms and data structures, software testing, object-oriented design, databases, full-stack and iOS development.
Startmate Launch Club / Top Founder Circle
Fellow · 2024
Came second with Big Brain, then was invited into the Top Founder Circle, Startmate's invite-only group for the founders it sees the most potential in.
Blackbird Giants
Founder, Cohort 8 · 2024
Mentoring for early-stage founders.
Certified Full-Stack Engineer
Lyra · 2025
Lyra's full-stack engineering certification.
Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified · 2023
Cloud fundamentals.
J♣︎Projects
J♣︎ · Projects
Mastering my craft
Catering invoices
2026Invoices each company for the private catering you've done for them.
Poker night tracker
2026Tracks buy-ins and keeps a leaderboard for poker nights.
Airtable clone
2025My own build of Airtable's spreadsheet-style database.
Big Brain
Jul 2024AI exam prep for selective school entry, used by 1,000+ students.
MACD trading bot
Jun 2023A Python bot that trades MACD crossovers through the Alpaca API.
Gym training app
2023A workout and training app, built as a uni project.
I'm under construction
10♥︎My Dawgs
10♥︎ · My Dawgs
The real winners
My software engineer friends
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