Ben Nisevich

Ben Nisevich swimming in a cove below limestone cliffs

Ben Nisevich with friends on a headland above the Pacific coast

Hosted a nonprofit hackathon sponsored by Bambu Lab, Lovable & Alibaba AI Models — $80k+ in sponsorship value, 100 participants, 45+ hrs organizing.
CTO & co-founder, Cyntral.AI — bootstrapped, $5k MRR, actively working with automotive industry leaders.
Contract software development — $15k+ in revenue; built optimized websites serving 50k+ monthly visits on Cloudflare & AWS.
Shipped 3 apps to the App Store & Google Play — 1,000+ downloads across 70+ countries.
Volunteer drummer, jazz band — played to thousands across cafés and retirement homes.

1st place — Bay Builders Hackathon @ AWS — Best Use of Nimbleway.
2nd place — hackathon sponsored by Tuya Smart, Stanford & Berkeley — $3,000 prize.
Open-source contributor @ Tuya (NYSE: TUYA).
Open-source contributor @ Inkbox.ai (YC S26).
Open-source contributor @ Insforge (YC P26).

Buzzle — live multiplayer classroom games, gamifying learning.
Summurcal — a quiet calendar for summer plans.
Lifeboard — a vision-board canvas for media, links & notes.
Keen — seven micro-games that measure how precise your senses really are.
Spotted — AI car-spotting social app on iOS.

Wudly — a practice tracker to watch your progress pay off.
Snap — AI outfit-rating app on iOS.
Synqit — one shared main, no branches to review.
Witness — your engineering dashboard is lying to you.

I'm Ben Nisevich, the CTO & co-founder of Cyntral.AI — a builder, 2x hackathon winner, athlete and musician based in Campbell, California. I build software, ship products, and play the drums. I'm currently seeking internships at startups.

Ben Nisevich resume — co-founder and AI-native software engineer, CTO of Cyntral.AI