Nicolas Silberstein Camara
Co-Founder & CTO at Firecrawl (YC S22) | Previously built Mendable | Teaching 50k people on @flutterguide
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
CTO & Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Building data extraction infrastructure for AI. Used by Amazon, Zapier, and Nvidia. Product by Mendable.
CTO & Co-Founder
2023
- Built an AI powered search platform, serving millions of queries per month for thousands of customers - One of the first LLM powered apps adopted by industry leaders like Coinbase, Snap, DoorDash, and MongoDB
Co-Founder @ SideGuide
2022
- Built and scaled an online course platform inside VS Code to $144k ARR in 3 months. - Created @flutterguide community of over 50,000 developers - Check it out at https://courses.sideguide.dev - Selected for Y Combinator S22 batch, 2% acceptance rate Under SideGuide Technologies Inc. (Prev HallHub LLC)
Co-Founder
2021 - 2022
FlutterBricks provides developers with hand-crafted components to speed up their workflow. - From idea💡 to revenue-generating startup in 2 months 💵 - 17,000+ users in over 100+ different countries - FlutterBricks is a product under HallHub™ LLC currently Under HallHub LLC
Co-Founder
2020 - 2022
- Raised about $40,000 (Bootstrapped) - Top 25 college startups in the country (e-Fest 2021 - Schulze School of Entrepreneurship) - Winner of the Holloway Competition 2021
Member
2021 - 2022
Contributed to a growing network of collegiate founders and entrepreneurs. Learned and shared critical skills for founders, including pitching ideas, networking, initiative-taking, and high-level problem-solving skills pertaining to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
Chief Technology Officer
2019 - 2021
Founder & CTO @ HallHub - Now has turned into SideGuide Technologies Inc. Responsible for the full-stack development of HallHub’s mobile app. Achievements: - Managed 100,000 app sessions with beta users - Rollout out at the University of New Hampshire (15,000+ students) - 2nd Place in the Holloway Startup competition Responsibilities: - Align company technical vision and lead the company’s technological development - Identify new opportunities for web, VR/AR, and mobile services - Manage complex servers that can handle up to 25,000 DAU
Resident Assistant
2019 - 2021
Responsible for developing an inclusive community among 210 residents by planning, promoting and working towards campus events.
Full Stack Developer
2020 - 2020
Designed and developed an intelligent cross-platform application with Flutter and Python server (Flask, MongoDB) to improve player’s performance through Machine Learning in specific sports.
Computer Science Intern
2019 - 2019
Unity: Supported the needs of the Engineering Department in planning, coding, testing and implementation of software design for assigned projects. ◦ Web Development: Created an admin dashboard in Flask(Python), HTML+CSS+JS and Bootstrap for customers to interact with their product orders. ◦ Robot Programming/Testing: Programmed and tested different types of robots including UR Robot and Fanuc in diverse projects related to industrial automation.
Software Developer Internship
2018 - 2018
Developed and Designed an algorithm trading robot using Java, JavaFX and Android Studio
Education
Bachelor's degree
2017 - 2021
High School
2004 - 2016