Aman Sanger
Co-Founder at Cursor
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAman Sanger is a founder and full-stack software engineer in San Francisco with nine years building AI-first developer tools and ML systems. As founder of Anysphere he leads development of Cursor, an AI-first IDE, and has contributed UX improvements (vim key mapping, markdown rendering, chat history shortcuts) to the open-source getcursor project. He also has backend experience building low-resource probers and metrics instrumentation for Google's Nomulus TLD registry and has trained transformers and built ML training infrastructure at You.com. His career spans AI research, bioinformatics, and quant analytics, a blend that informs both product design and reliable backend engineering. Calling himself an "AI Maximalist," he pairs hands-on coding with product-level vision to ship developer-facing AI features.
10 years of coding experience
English, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
netty10
testing10
user-interface10
userinterface10
java10
javas10
react10
javascript9
google-cloud-platform9
typescript39
typescript29
typescript9
typescript-types9
javascripts9
keybindings9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
getcursor/cursor
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
The AI Code Editor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 PRs, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Aman primarily contributed to front-end and UI enhancements within the AI code editor, adding features and fixing issues. They fixed a shortcut for chat history and filesearch issues, indicating work on interactive elements. The commits also show modifications to the code editor's behavior and navigation, like the vim key mapping and markdown rendering, indicating involvement in the core functionality and user experience.
google/nomulus
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Top-level domain name registry service on Google Cloud Platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 13 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aman primarily focused on building and enhancing the "prober" subproject within the Nomulus repository, a top-level domain registry service. Their contributions involved the creation of core components, including ActionHandlers, Protocol classes, and Inbound/Outbound message interfaces. The user also implemented the full WebWHOIS sequence, demonstrating a deep understanding of the system's internal workings and the integration of various components. Significant changes were made to handle metrics collection in ProbingSequences.
appenginegoogle-appservice-registrygcloudapp-engine
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