George Ishaq

Currently a founding engineer at Legion Health. Incoming member of technical staff at AppLovin.

Work

Spark

YC AI Hackathon Winner · Capstone

AI game creation platform — built the agentic code generation that turns prompts into playable games with live preview.

TypeScript, Next.js, Claude AI Watch demo

AppLovin Data Challenge

Cal Hacks

Optimized queries on a 245M-row, 20GB dataset from 62s to 39ms with pre-aggregated rollup tables and intelligent query routing.

Python, Polars, DuckDB, Arrow IPC View on GitHub

62s

39ms

Experience

Legion Health (YC) Software Engineer — present

Stealth Startup Built realtime messaging + payments for a mobile C2C marketplace

Hawsib Built hit.ps e-commerce platform, 100K+ visits

Minerva University Taught Python fundamentals to 200+ freshmen

B.S. Computer Science, Minerva University — 2026

Awards

RainForce 1st place · Agents in The Loop Hackathon '25

Medibot 3rd place · Stanford TreeHacks '23

Lately

Learning mechanistic interpretability through Neel Nanda's guide and running my own mini research experiments, it's not my day job yet but I'm getting there.

ishaq@uni.minerva.edu GitHub LinkedIn

George Ishaq — 2026