Hi, I'm Elijah.
I'm a Software Engineer at Cursor. I enjoy building tasteful products and distributed systems. Check out why I joined Cursor.
I previously studied Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Work
Software Engineer @ Cursor
January 2026 - Present
Building the future of AI-driven software development
Member of Technical Staff @ Yutori
September 2025 - December 2025
Scaled backend infrastructure for asynchronous web agents
Software Engineering Intern @ Wispr Flow
Jan 2025 - April 2025
Worked on optimizing inference on the ML team for 60,000+ users
Scout @ CRV
July 2025 - Present
Investing 25-100k cheques into promising seed and pre-seed startups
Projects
Shadow
August 2025
A background coding agent that runs on VMs allowing you to run code from anywhere asynchronously. 1.4k Github stars.
Video2ascii
December 2025
WebGL-powered React Component for video to ASCII conversion. 400 Github stars.
Tacc
November 2025
A Tokenization-Aware Compression Codec to efficiently send LLM outputs over low-bandwidth networks
Hacker Fab
Sept 2024 – Present
Built a semiconductor chip fab in my apartment