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smol machines

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Smol machines solve the problem of "but app works on my machine" by shipping the machine.

Smol machine enables devs to ship a lightweight virtual machine with any software, similar to how Electron ships an entire browser with the web app.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Previously Smol Machines

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

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Founder/CEO

Building the next generation cloud service that's like a baby of lambda and ec2. Using a new primitive that combines the isolation of a VM with speed and flexibility of containers. Recently was at AWS. Worked at ECS|Fargate|FargateOnFirecracker for ~4 years. ECS is largest container service in the world. Founding engineer of ECS managed instances. Before that, spent another ~4years in Infra in startups, NASA. Helped decomission Terra, Aqua, Aura satellites back into earth.

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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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