Hey, I'm Tair Asim.

I was born and raised in Kazakhstan, lived in Finland thru my 20s, spent a couple of years in Dubai, and finally settled in beautiful Barcelona.

I'm a product engineer and founder with a background in developer tools. Right now, I'm building something new around devtools and AI.

Most recently, I led product at sync. labs (yc w24/gv), building AI tools for lipsync, video dubbing + editing.

Prior to that, I was a founding engineer at buildspace (yc s20/a16z). It was the world's largest school for people working on their own ideas. I helped scale nights & weekends to 100K+ students and led engineering for sage, an AI social product for builders to find and be found.

Before that, I worked as a senior engineer at thirdweb, an open-source platform for full-stack Web3 development.

In my spare time, I tinker with side projects. I've also contributed to open source, including evm.codes, an interactive reference for the Ethereum VM.

In the past, I've consulted for Fortune 500 companies, such as Nokia & Microsoft, taught at unis and bootcamps, led product and engineering teams, and co-founded two devtools startups: Deveo (acquired by Perforce) and Dockbit (didn't work out, but what a ride).

If you'd like to get in touch, drop me a line at hi@tairasim.com.