New York City, USA

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Yahia Bakour

I’m Yahia; founder, runner, & caffeine enthusiast

About

I'm a builder at heart

I love to build stuff people want.

Journey

Founder @ Context.dev

Context.dev
2025 - present

Building the future of web intelligence, we already power hundreds of customers' applications.

Growing REALLY fast, holding on for the ride.

Backed by YCombinator (S26)

AI Principal Engineer / Manager

Sunrun
2023 - 2026

Leading development on new projects within the AI org.

Made the company a ton of money by building hundreds of internal AI automations, led a team of 6 staff engineers.

Got a shoutout to Wall St on Q1 2025 earnings call.

What a fun ride.

Staff Software Engineer

Optic
2023 (10 months)

Life moves fast, Essense was acquired by Optic and i joined via acqui-hire as as a Staff Engineer.

Founder

Essense.io (acquired by Optic)
2023 (2 months)

Essense empowers product owners to make data driven decisions based on user feedback. Effortlessly analyze thousands of reviews in minutes, and stay ahead of the competition. Acquired fast.

CTO & Co-Founder

Stock Alarm (acquired by Center Mark Capital)
2019 — 2023

Working with a small team to help thousands of stock market traders every day. Stock Alarm provides over 70 realtime alert types on 15k+ stock & crypto tickers.

Fully bootstrapped from start to acquisition.

4.8

Appstore Rating

100K

Monthly Notifications

100K

Daily Alerts

200K

Registered Users

250K

Registered Users

SDE / Tech Lead

Amazon
2020 — 2022

Owner of a variety of initiatives impacting Amazon's checkout platform (tier 1 platform) worldwide on all devices from the points of security, latency, and reliability.

Global Technology Summer Analyst

Bank of America, Merrill Lynch
2019

Anyone who has a 401(K) with Merrill Lynch utilizes investment direction functionality that I designed & implemented to manage their future investment allocation.

Software Engineering Intern

Libring (acquired by app annie)
2018 — 2019

Wrote a boat-load of code and caught the startup bug. 10/10 experience.

Featured on

Featured on Confluence.vc

Featured on Confluence.vc for my work on Context.dev.

Featured on NothingButKnives.com

Featured on NothingButKnives for my work on KnifeGeek.io (a free pocket knife search engine I run in my spare time).

Acquire.com Podcast

Post-acquisition of StockAlarm, I was invited to speak about the experience on Acquire.com's podcast.

IndieHacker's Podcast

IndieHackers is an online community for bootstrapped founders. Their podcast is legendary and has over 50K+ monthly listeners. I was invited to join and speak about Stock Alarm's journey, great episode.

Founder's Club Feature

Founder marketing playbook aggregator website that featured my story for Stock Alarm.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Boston University, MA
2016 — 2020

Magna Cum Laude.

Techstack

  • React

  • Typescript

  • Node

  • React Native

  • Python

  • Firebase

  • GCP

  • AWS

  • Vercel

  • Netlify

  • Figma

  • Mixpanel

  • Plausible

  • OpenAI

  • React

Contact

Got something interesting to say?

New York, NY, USA

bakour@hey.com

Not available for work

© 2026 — Yahia Bakour

© 2026 — Yahia Bakour