Stepan Parunashvili
CTO at JS Capital Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStepan Parunashvili is a CTO and seasoned software leader based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience taking products from zero to one and shipping reliable systems at scale. He currently leads Instant (a modern Firebase-style real-time DB) and JS Capital Ventures, combining full‑stack engineering with product-led execution; at Airbnb he founded tools like air/land (used by ~25% of engineers) and led Payments India to modernize payment flows. An early hire at Wit.ai who stayed through the Facebook acquisition, he has driven complex migrations and shipped patented NLP features and distributed systems without downtime. He also builds engineering communities and bottom-up innovation—creating Airbnb’s #crazy-ideas channel that spawned multiple production systems—and contributes to open-source tooling including features like a browser code editor and Chrome extension for Instant. Not obvious from titles: he’s launched startups in China and prefers working with long-term collaborators, currently building a company with his best friend and running a venture with his brother.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
English, manadrin, Georgian, French
Stackoverflow
2,699reputation
244kreached
60answers
194questions
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
typescript310
typescript10
typescript210
javascripts10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
database8
databases8
documentation6
ruby-on-rails6
webpack-hmr6
google-maps6
gulp6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
instantdb/instant
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Instant is a modern Firebase. We make you productive by giving your frontend a real-time database.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:663 reviews, 637 PRs, 1124 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Stepan contributed to the development of the "Instant" real-time database platform, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. Contributions included improvements to the example chat application, fixing grammar issues in the tutorial, and adding features like a browser-based code editor. The user's work also involved integrating features into a chrome extension for the platform.
stopachka/pg-essays
May 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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