Samyok “Yok” Nepal
Member of technical staff at Interaction, a $300M AI company. I build Poke - the AI assistant that lives in your messages. Computer science out of Minnesota, sharpened at Jane Street and Robinhood.
Building Poke at Interaction
Interaction is a small, dense team in Palo Alto shipping Poke - an AI assistant you talk to like a person, right inside your texts. It reads your inbox, runs your errands, and remembers what matters. I work across the stack: the agent loop, the systems that keep it fast and reliable, and the product details that make it feel effortless.
Poke - an AI assistant that lives where you already are: your messages.
Agent systems, reliability, and the small details that make it feel human.
On the ground in Palo Alto with a tight, ambitious founding team.
Where I sharpened the edges
Interaction
Building Poke, the AI assistant in your messages, alongside the founding team in Palo Alto.
Jane Street
Wrote software at one of the most demanding engineering bars in finance, where correctness and speed are non-negotiable.
Robinhood
Shipped on a platform trusted by millions, learning what it takes to build software at consumer scale.
University of Minnesota
Studied computer science and built the foundation - systems, algorithms, and a habit of going deep.
A little about Yok
Birthday was June 17. Spent it the way that suits me best: shipping good software with people I like.
Another year, faster.
- Minnesota-grown, Palo Alto-based - chasing the hardest problems in AI.
- Goes from idea to shipped quickly, then keeps polishing until it feels right.
- Happiest at the intersection of fast systems and thoughtful product.
- Believes the best tools disappear into how you already work.