Gary Basin

Gary Basin

Building things with computers.

Aurora curtains above a fjord, with a lit cabin on the shore.

Writing

Open source

  • Agentboard (web app) 425

    A web-native GUI for tmux, built to run many AI coding agents — smooth on a phone browser, with proper iOS and Mac keyboard support.

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    Agentboard on desktop and phone, showing agent sessions, pull requests, and a live coding terminal.
  • Flopwire (CLI) 92

    Messaging and history search for AI coding agents, across models, harnesses, machines, and teammates. Code on GitHub.

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    Two coding agents coordinate validation work through Flopwire messaging.
  • Atrium

    A multiplayer agent workspace and Slack alternative. Chat with your team, run coding agents, and join live sessions in one place.

    WIP
    Atrium team chat beside a shared live agent session.

Angel investments

Valar Atomics Groq Replit Stepful HoX + more

Background

  • Co-founder & CEO, Ike

    Building an AI-powered mortgage brokerage that lets real estate agents become licensed loan officers and get paid on their own transactions.

  • Independent consulting, Basin Ventures
    • AI engineering — software factories, harness design, RL envs
    • Trading & markets — statistical arbitrage, market simulation
    • Compute — GPU & GPUaaS, distributed neocloud design and engineering
  • Co-founder & CTO, Usonia

    Designed a blockchain for cryptographically-verifiable mortgage loans — developed as an OCC joint venture with Flagstar Bank (NYSE: FLG).

  • Founding team, Reserve Protocol

    Helped design an asset-backed stablecoin for high-inflation economies.

  • Co-founder & CTO, Kapital Trading

    Built a high-frequency trading firm from the ground up — infrastructure, alphas, and a team that peaked at 25. Traded our own capital across interest-rate derivatives, equity index futures, FX, and equities.

  • Software engineer, Balyasny

    Built trading software for a multi-strategy hedge fund.

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