Ishaan Dey
Engineer based in Toronto and San Francisco, building at the intersection of design engineering and AI. Studying
Software Engineering
at the University of Waterloo.
Previously at Vercel and General Agents.
Shadow
— 2025
Open-source background coding agent and interface (1000+ stars)
Vercel
— 2025
Building v0, the full-stack vibe coding platform
Sandbox
— 2024
AI-powered, collaborative code editor (1400+ stars)
Arceus
— 2024
Distributed marketplace to democratize training large AI models
General Agents
— 2024
Product engineering for computer autopilot agents
Axiom
— 2024
IDE for UWaterloo's formal proofs programming language
Dots (YC S21)
— 2024
Full-stack engineering, global payouts infrastructure
The Human Simulation Lab
— 2024
Agent-based simulations to model human behaviour
Hack the North
— 2024
Frontend development for Canada's largest hackathon
TeachAssist
— 2022
Cross-platform academic mobile app, over 15,000 users
Ishaan Dey
Updated 8/17/2025