# Agustin Garcinuno

> Agustin Garcinuno is a developer and founding engineer at AfterQuery whose public record traces an uncommon route from Scotia and Fortuna in Northern California to the University of Pennsylvania, a resale-software startup, finance roles, and applied AI research. He co-authored UI-Bench and IDE-Bench and helped rebuild AfterQuery's sandbox infrastructure for large-scale agent simulations.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at AfterQuery
- **Organizations:** AfterQuery, Flipkit, Goldman Sachs, Soros Fund Management, University of Pennsylvania
- **Education:** Environmental Management and Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania, High school diploma, Fortuna High School
- **Known for:** Co-authored UI-Bench, covering 10 text-to-app tools, 30 prompts, 300 generated sites and more than 4,000 expert judgments., Co-authored IDE-Bench, built around 80 tasks in eight previously unpublished repositories across C, C++, Java, Python, TypeScript and MERN applications., Helped replace AfterQuery's in-house GKE sandbox system with managed infrastructure; a Daytona case study reports an 86% reduction in sandbox creation time and more than 40 engineering hours saved weekly.

## Career timeline

- **2019** — Graduated from Fortuna High School and began studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
- **2021** — Worked as a summer analyst at Soros Fund Management.
- **2022** — Received a third Mark E. Reed Scholarship; the scholarship record lists awards in 2019, 2021 and 2022.
- **2023** — Completed studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
- **2024** — Co-founded Flipkit, an omnichannel sales automation product for secondhand apparel businesses; the company joined Penn Venture Lab's VIP-X alumni cohort and reached the Penn Startup Challenge semifinals.
- **2025** — Worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs from January through July.
- **2025** — Joined AfterQuery as founding engineer in August and co-authored UI-Bench.
- **2026** — Co-authored IDE-Bench, a framework for evaluating coding agents on realistic software-engineering tasks.

## Achievements

- Co-authored UI-Bench, covering 10 text-to-app tools, 30 prompts, 300 generated sites and more than 4,000 expert judgments.
- Co-authored IDE-Bench, built around 80 tasks in eight previously unpublished repositories across C, C++, Java, Python, TypeScript and MERN applications.
- Helped replace AfterQuery's in-house GKE sandbox system with managed infrastructure; a Daytona case study reports an 86% reduction in sandbox creation time and more than 40 engineering hours saved weekly.
- Co-founded Flipkit and reached the semifinal round of Penn Venture Lab's 2024 Startup Challenge.
- Received the Mark E. Reed Scholarship in 2019, 2021 and 2022.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — IDE-Bench was released as an arXiv preprint with Garcinuno among its six authors.
- **2025-08** — UI-Bench was released, with Garcinuno as a co-author and AfterQuery affiliation.
- **2025-08** — Garcinuno began his role as founding engineer at AfterQuery.

## Links

- Website: https://garcinuno.me/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agustingarcinuno

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Last updated: 2026-09-27