SamyokNepal
Engineer. Builder. A South Dakota kid who didn’t stay put.
First engineering hire at Interaction.co, where I build Poke - a personal AI assistant that actually works.
01. // about
Hi, I'm Samyok.
I grew up in Brookings, South Dakota - a small college town where I learned to code mostly because there wasn’t much else to do. That turned out to be the best accident of my life.
Now I’m the first engineering hire at Interaction.co, building Poke: a personal AI assistant that actually works. I graduated from the University of Minnesota in 5 semesters, spent time at Stanford, and somehow grinded out 20+ hackathons along the way.
I like hard problems, fast iteration, and shipping things real people use.
02. // experience
Where I've worked.
Interaction.co
current2025 - PresentMember of Technical Staff
First engineering hire. Building Poke (poke.com), a personal AI assistant that connects your email, calendar, and apps into one place that actually gets things done.
Jane Street
Summer 2024Software Engineer Intern, Infrastructure
Worked on core infrastructure at one of the world’s top quantitative trading firms - the kind of systems that have to be both fast and impossible to break.
Robinhood
Summer 2023Software Engineer Intern, Options Platform
Shipped features for the options trading platform used by millions, balancing speed of iteration with the care that money in motion demands.
// education & honors
University of Minnesota
BS Computer Science - graduated December 2024, in 5 semesters
Stanford University
Visiting Student, 2023
USACO Gold
Gold division, competitive programming
4× AIME Qualifier
Competition mathematics
03. // projects
Things I've built.
// hackathons
20+ wins, and counting.
04. // contact
Let's talk.
Always down to talk about hard problems, weird ideas, or South Dakota. The fastest way to reach me is email - the rest are below.