2017
Honours BBA, Schulich School of Business, York University
Curriculum vitae
Bikram Brar
Founding Engineer · San Francisco, CA
Founding engineer at a YC startup. Before that I founded and built AI products end to end, and before that I spent six years as a business analyst and product manager learning how work actually gets done.
Experience
2026 – Present
Founding Engineer · A YC startup
Building the product from the ground floor.
Oct 2025 – 2026
Founder · Air · Astra · Songbird
Built and launched agent products end to end, including a computer-use agent that took 1st at YC Agent Jam ’25.
Jan 2024 – Sep 2025
Founder & CTO · Mysti
Built AI products from zero to one across health, voice, and operations.
Dec 2022 – Dec 2023
Senior Product Manager · ODAIA
Second PM hire after the Series A. Led AI-driven planning for pharma field teams.
Dec 2020 – Nov 2022
Associate Manager, Technology · Gale
Led product and delivery for enterprise loyalty apps and CRM rollouts.
Mar 2020 – Dec 2020
Product Manager · Empire Life
Owned the group-benefits portal roadmap.
Jun 2017 – Mar 2020
Senior Business Analyst · BMO Financial Group
Mapped how people actually bank and wrote the requirements behind mobile payments.
Projects
2025
Air · Cofounder & CTO · 1st place, YC Agent Jam ’25
Hold Option, speak, and Air reads your screen and gets it done across Finder, Messages, Calendar, and Notes, with memory, guardrails, and a human in the loop.
tryair.app
2026
Astra · Founder
A proactive iPhone assistant. Agents work quietly across email, calendar, and tasks, surface only what matters, and ask before they act.
heyastra.xyz
2026
Songbird · Founder
A local design canvas where you and your agent map an app, redesign screens together through UI and CLI, and hand clean context to Codex.
getsongbird.xyz
2026
Codex Chat · Open source
Open-source SwiftUI client for Codex with local Markdown history, reusable context, skills, mods, and explicit safety controls.
github.com/Bikz/codex-chat
2025
VoiceCal
Answers the phone for allied-health clinics, books and reschedules appointments, and hands off to the front desk when it should. Built through the Antler accelerator.
voicecal.ca
2026
Rebeam
Cleans messy customer records into a CRM, finds who to contact, and calls past customers with AI to bring them back.
rebeam.ai
2025
DealScan
Upload a CIM and get a structured investment view: scorecard, standardized financials, diligence questions, and an IC memo draft.
dealscan.io
2026
Starbeam
Runs overnight across the tools a team already uses and delivers one cited brief: what changed, why it matters, and what to do next.
starbeamhq.com
2024
Mysti · Founder & CTO
A health platform that turns wearable data, goals, and personal context into insight loops people act on.
mysti.ai
2026
Disco
Turns shipped commits into customer-facing release notes with signal, rhythm, and style.
discologs.com
2025
Capsule Memory · Open source
Open-source memory substrate for agents to store, retrieve, summarize, pin, and forget, with explanations and policy controls. Built for the Agentic Memory hackathon.
github.com/Bikz/capsule-memory
2025
Goodcommit · Open source
A fast Git utility that stages changes, writes an AI commit message, commits, and pushes with one command.
github.com/Bikz/goodcommit
2025
Repoprompter
Turns GitHub repositories into optimized context for AI coding assistants.
repoprompter.com
2025
RentPapers
Renters share one complete application packet; landlords review everything in one place.
rentpapers.com
Hackathons
Nov 2025
1st place, YC Agent Jam ’25, with Air
Oct 2025
2nd place, AngelList hackathon
Sep 2025
1st place, Aeternity hackathon
Skills
- Agents
- Agent SDKs, computer use, tool use, memory, voice agents, evals, guardrails, human-in-the-loop
- Engineering
- Swift, SwiftUI, TypeScript, React, React Native, Node.js, Next.js, PostgreSQL
- Product
- discovery, workflow mapping, prototyping, design, roadmaps, launches