Nazar Ilamanov

Los Angeles, CA

Founder and full-stack / AI engineer. Currently building NoodleFlow. Previously shipped Google Lens in Google Photos to ~100M users, built AI chat at Dune, built EVM indexers at smlXL, and researched 3D hand-pose ML at MIT CSAIL.

Selected Work

Product · 2025—noodleflow.ai ↗

NoodleFlow

Every AI media model in one studio — generate, chain into repeatable flows, and organize it all on a visual canvas.

Product · 2026studyspace.sh ↗

StudySpace

An AI tutor that finds the prerequisite you're missing and teaches any topic from first principles — bring your own material or just name a goal.

Product · 2026ao2.ai ↗

AO2

A portable memory layer for AI tools. Tell one agent something and they all know — structured, versioned, and yours to own.

Tool · 2026cartograph.sh ↗

Cartograph

A local-first tool that maps codebases for AI-assisted development.

Experience

NoodleFlow

Founder & Full-Stack / AI Engineer

2025—

Dune / smlXL

Full-Stack Engineer · sim.io, AI chat

2024—25

Google

Mobile Apps Engineer · Google Lens

2019—24

MIT CSAIL

ML Researcher · 3D hand pose (ACCV)

2017—19

✦Silver Medal, International Physics Olympiad (2013) · MIT, B.S. CS & Engineering · writing on SolidNoob ↗