Yosef Pilip
CS at San Diego State · AI developer · Founder
I build things that make life a little easier, and a little more fun. Occasionally I make a room very loud.
Founding…
Most of what I build starts with something that bugs me.
A three-day email chain. A process nobody defends but everybody follows. A thing that should exist and just doesn’t. I like taking those apart, and I like building whatever replaces them.
I’m a computer science student at San Diego State, and the work I chase has a physical edge on it. Right now I’m leaning into the entrepreneurial side of that, as the founder of Cache It, a brand new way to find art hidden around a city.
- School
- San Diego State University
- Now
- AI Software Developer
- Building
- Cache It
- Based
- Bay Area & San Diego
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Experience
AI Software Developer
Nobody should have to write a formal email to say they’re sick. Now they tell Slack in whatever words they’d actually use, and a bot I built in Python on the Gemini API works out what they meant, files it as a real record, and goes to find their manager. Three days became same-day, for about 100 people.
I also modelled a four-tier permission system and built the internal HR app on top of it, which replaced a paid third-party tool and saves $8,000 a year. And a scheduled Apps Script service audits every account for 2FA, recovery info and profile photos, then logs what it finds. That is 40 hours a month of manual review across ~100 accounts, gone.
Events & External Relations Manager
Ran a 50-person team across construction, logistics and creative on a $13,000 budget. 400+ people through the door per event, roughly double the previous years’ average, mostly by partnering with other campus organisations instead of shouting louder.
Operations & Web Development Lead
Replaced manual sign-in with a self-updating pipeline, so organisers could watch member engagement live instead of reconstructing it afterwards. Automated the member comms and event ops around it too.
Education
San Diego State University, B.S. Computer Science, Aug 2024 – Jun 2028 expected. GPA 3.8.
Homestead High School and De Anza College, dual enrollment, graduated 2024. GPA 3.8. Studied manufacturing engineering at De Anza, where I learned to design a part and then actually go make it.
Say hi.
If you’re building something you’re excited about, I’d like to hear about it.