About
Abdullah Nauman is a co-founder at Antigen. He previously worked as a product manager at Google Ads and as an ML engineer at Google Search, where he built large-scale infrastructure for conversion measurement. Earlier in his career, he joined a YC-backed startup as an early employee, scaled a bootstrapped SaaS business, and developed low-level imaging software for semiconductor manufacturing.
Abdullah Nauman @_abdullahnauman
For our previous idea, I had Claude Code use the whois CLI to find me a three-letter domain name that was available. It produced a list of ~15 options. Bought https://t.co/ffZZpiVdbf for $100. https://t.co/ihUe0zI5vl
Aug 2, 2026 · ♥ 2
Abdullah Nauman @_abdullahnauman
This is very true I’ve been mainly on 4.6 for this very reason, it’s an incredible thinking partner It seems Anthropic’s models used to eval on some internal measure of helpfulness and sparky intelligence - I recall hearing that they don’t use public benchmarks internally https://t.co/iDE8COGERz
Aug 2, 2026 · ♥ 4
Abdullah Nauman @_abdullahnauman
jj https://t.co/dPSMO7NT73
Aug 1, 2026
Founder at AntigenYC F25
Intro paths
Abdullah went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Antigen's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Abdullah can intro founders to Antigen's investors below.
Antigen's investors · 1
Co-founders at Antigen
Experience
- AntigenCo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- Powell StFoundercurrent2025 — present
- GoogleSoftware Engineer - Product2025
- GoogleSoftware Engineer - ML Infra2024 — 2025Mountain View, California
- University of MichiganTeaching Assistant for EECS 370 (Computer Organization)2023 — 2024
- KLAEmbedded Software Engineer2023
- GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2023Mountain View, California
- GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2022 — 2023New York City
- University of Michigan Department of MathematicsUndergraduate Research Assistant2022
- AGAPÉEngineering Intern (YC S21)2021 — 2022
- JSTORSoftware Engineer Intern2021
- Brookhaven National LaboratoryDeep Learning Research Intern2019Upton, NY
Education
- Y Combinator2025
- University of MichiganComputer Science and Engineering2020 — 2023
- Ward Melville Senior High School
Skills & more
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Distributed SystemsC++From Abdullah's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended Y Combinator1,466
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Also attended University of Michigan417
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Shared employers
Also worked at Antigen2
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Also worked at Google1,089
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