Benjamin Shyong
Co-founder & CEO, Injester · ex-Meta ex-Apple
Turning AI shopping agents into customers
Hardware Operations
Consumer AR Glasses Manufacturing
Staff Technical Program Manager for Meta's Ray-Ban Display AR glasses. Led design, engineering, supply chain, and factory ops from prototype through mass production for a first-generation consumer AR product.
Operations Program Manager & Product Quality
Operations Program Manager for iPad Pro, prototype to mass production. Apple Special Projects to stand up a new manufacturer and automation line for Health Tech, then ran ops and quality for iPhone and AirTag.
Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Factory Operations
Manufacturing Engineer to Global Supply Manager to Operations Team Lead in Torreon, Mexico, then an APAC strategic assignment in Shanghai directing an ERP rollout across five China plants.
Operator
- 10 years Consumer Hardware NPI at Apple + Meta
- 9 factory cities: China, Vietnam, Taiwan
- xFN convergence: ME, EE, SW, supply chain, ops
Builder
- 3× hackathon 1st place + 1× top 6 finalist
- Full-stack AI builds: A2A, MCP, LoRA fine-tunes, vLLM
- Five-property STR brand on production software I write
Builds
all projects →
The missing layer between the human web and AI agents. Strips a page to what an agent actually needs. 81% less content, 3 to 5x better task completion.
A 90-second launch film in about 20 hours. AI for the people, code for every word, one beat grid for picture and sound.
Agents are multiplying faster than anyone can supervise them. AgentTalkie gives the fleet one voice workspace for direction, approval, execution, and receipts.
Prompt-to-product workspace for customizing physical objects without learning CAD. AI proposes geometry; independent checks bind evidence and approval to the exact revision.
Multiplayer MCP-native agent that replaces the back office for short-term rental operations. Multiple AI clients share one durable backend.
Two-agent voice architecture for real-time standup facilitation. Scriber runs the meeting by voice and mutates the Linear board live; Mnemo silently remembers across standups and whispers guidance.
Hackathon wins
all hackathons →Red Thread
first placeFirst place. Built Red Thread, a hospitality concierge concept rooted in Rosewood's "Sense of Place" thesis.
LoopOS
top 6 finalistTop 6 finalist. Built LoopOS, a multiplayer MCP-native agent that replaces the back office for short-term rental operations.
Data-OnCall
first placeFirst place. 4-agent incident response team for data quality bugs, fine-tuned Llama 3.1 + LoRA for NL→GraphQL, end-to-end in 54.8s at ~2¢/run.
Injester
first placeFirst place. Built the earliest Injester prototype, agent-to-merchant commerce infrastructure. Demoed at NVIDIA GTC the following Tuesday.
About
One of my favorite moments in life is meeting someone chasing the purpose they were made for. Someone living so deep inside their ikigai. That rare alignment of love, mastery, contribution, and craft. You feel it within seconds. The air around them sings.