Paul Bakaus
Official Role
Founder at Renaissance Geek, Inc..
Official Bio
Paul Bakaus is a product engineer, two-time founder, and creative technologist. He's the CEO and founder of Renaissance Geek, Inc., an AI startup emerging from stealth. Its first project, Impeccable, is an open-source design skill, cli and extension that de-slops the design models produce out-of-the-box, and allows live visual iteration with a rich command palette in your production code base.
Before Renaissance Geek, Paul spent 20+ years building at the intersection of code, design, and culture. He created jQuery UI in 2007, still running on millions of sites. At Google, he shipped Chrome DevTools features, helped speed up the web with AMP, made it visual with Web Stories, and became Google's first Head of Creator Relations. Most recently, at Spotter, he built Spotter Studio, giving YouTubers back their most precious resource: time.
His mission: move the human-AI interface past the chat box, and build AI tools for everyone, not just engineers.
Scheduled Sessions
- 2026 06 29 paul bakaus the dark arts of skill engineering — The Dark Arts of Skill Engineering (2026-06-29, 4:30pm-5:30pm)
- 2026 06 30 paul bakaus design at the speed of adjectives — Design at the Speed of Adjectives (2026-06-30, 1:30pm-1:50pm)