Haroon Bakhsh

Haroon Bakhsh

Member of Technical Staff at 36 Labs, researching creativity in large language models.

Work

36 Labs

36 Labs CTO

2026 –

Autonomous creative intelligence. Leading research and engineering on creativity in large language models.

Prism

Prism Founder

2024 – 25

Cloud-native practice management for independent opticians: clinical records, dispensing, and retail in one platform. Built product and engineering from zero.

Galilei

Galilei Software Engineer

2022 – 24

Wealth management firm running institutional multi-asset portfolios with alternative allocations for families, charities, and foundations. Built the firm's data pipelines from scratch.

Side projects

Rootie

Deterministic link routing to Chromium profiles

Notch

Dynamic Island for your Mac

Hacky

A shared MCP hub for your hackathon