Paul Bakaus

Product Engineer before it was cool.

I move between code, design, and product. I've been doing this since jQuery UI, through Chrome DevTools at Google, and now with AI tools. I like building things right before they become obvious.

I'm driven by making AI work for everyone, not just developers, and by bringing curation and human judgment back to a web drowning in slop.

Impeccable

AI coding tools have no design sense. Impeccable gives them one — a skills system for tools like Claude Code and Cursor that teaches them real design expertise. Define your design language once, and every generated component follows it.

Website / GitHub / 10k+ stars

Radiant

Building visual effects from scratch is a time sink. Radiant is a collection of 80+ production-ready WebGL shaders you can preview, customize, and drop into any web project. Zero dependencies, MIT licensed, works with any framework.

Website / GitHub / Open Source

agent-reviewsGitHub

Token-efficient, automated GitHub review workflows and bug fixing that actually understand your codebase.

burn-after-loginGitHub

Solves authentication for AI browser agents. Analyzes your auth, creates dev-only login shortcuts, then self-destructs.

2007 jQuery UI Created the interaction library used by millions of developers
2010 Zynga Built Aves, the first browser game engine — acquired by Zynga
2013 Google Chrome DevTools, AMP, Web Stories, Head of Creator Relations
2021 Koji Head of Creators
2022 Spotter EVP Product — built AI tools for YouTube creators at scale
Now Independent Fractional CTPO, advisor, open source

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