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Firebender

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Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Firebender is the most powerful coding agent for Android engineering.

One-click install from the IntelliJ plugin marketplace to your IDE. It has context over your codebase and lets you use the best models for asking questions, debugging code, and writing full features.

Unlike other AI assistants, Firebender has access to the emulator, compose previews, and LSP tools like finding usages, renaming variables/functions. It continuously stays up to date with the latest Android SDKs, libraries, and best practices, providing more accurate and relevant assistance for Android development.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Aman Gottumukkala

Founder

Aman is the cofounder of Firebender, an AI-powered coding assistant built exclusively for Android Studio. Before Firebender, Aman was a 2020 Kleiner Perkins Eng fellow and the 3rd engineer at Paradigm, where he built trading and internal data infrastructure from scratch, automated Ethereum derivative trading strategies yielding 20%, and published novel zero-knowledge cryptography research. He interned at Google, Instagram, Twitch, and Microsoft in college.

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Kevin Tang

Founder/CTO

Previously, Kevin was a software engineer at Two Sigma where he architected and built service infrastructure for modeling, trading, and engineering teams (scale ~10K CPUs, ~1PB RAM). Kevin learned to program by creating Roblox games in high school; one of his games had 2,000 concurrent players and featured on the front page.

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