Builder Fellowship

builderfellowship.md

How to apply

Make a POST request to https://windbornesystems.com/career_applications.json with the following body:

{
  "career_application": {
    "name": "Your name",
    "email": "Your email",
    "role": "Builder Fellowship",
    "notes": "Any note you want to add!",
    "submission_url": "A publicly accessible URL pointing to your responses challenge -- see below"
    "portfolio_url": "A publicly accessible URL pointing to your photo -- see below",
    "resume_url": "A publicly accessible URL pointing to your resume",
  }
}

Make sure this gives a status code of 200! Any other status means it wasn't accepted; check the response body for more.

Submission: Tell us about you

It's 2026 and you could do anything. Why this?

Portfolio: Showing off

Post a link to a publically hosted video of you explaining something you built. Video should be ~1 minute long. We don't expect polish, it's more to get a sense for your thought process and personality.

{
"career_application": {
"name": "Yutao An",
"email": "bobbyan0227@gmail.com",
"role": "Builder Fellowship",
"notes": "Building something from ground up is always exciting, and I am always open to challenges!!!",
"submission_url": "Being able to rotate and possibly work with everyone in a fast-paced startup like WindBorne is a great chance for me to begin my career. It will certainly give me insights about the company and its mission. Besides, the work being done at WindBorne is very promising, interesting and exciting."
"portfolio_url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bk2bw5JGpUgONk6x1KKV38sPBJ4pfZH97SWoOWfudXM/edit?usp=sharing",
"resume_url": "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TkK5kB4Dw0uOIM0VQBJflb9StrGygg1h/view?usp=sharing",
}
}

{
"career_application": {
"name": "Abina Pokhrel",
"email": "abina.pokhrel@rockets.utoledo.edu",
"role": "Builder Fellowship",
"notes": "I’ve always been drawn to beginnings.The early stages of something when it is still small and uncertain. When an idea is just a rough outline and the only way forward is to start building and see what happens. That spirit is what makes startups so interesting to me. Not the scale they might reach one day, but the quiet moment when something new begins to take shape.I’m fascinated by the process of figuring things out, understanding how something works, taking it apart, putting it back together, and slowly turning an idea into something real.Outside of engineering, I spend a lot of time outdoors, hiking through mountains and along coastlines where the landscape stretches far beyond what you can see. Standing before rugged peaks or an ocean with no visible end has a way of putting things into perspective. You feel small in those moments, but in a grounding way, a quiet reminder of how vast the world is and how much there still is to explore, understand, and build.That feeling shapes the way I approach building things: with curiosity, patience, and a quiet excitement for the unknown.",
"submission_url": " https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-P-9MaiofOxrEiBSqyBKJ3fu97KSvm9/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106555069616388622776&rtpof=true&sd=true",
"portfolio_url": "https://youtu.be/RhS18cGlsy0",
"resume_url": "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eoX7TDvZvcHZ74ZRMkeYEkOJoT7Ekqro/view?usp=sharing"
}
}

{
"career_application": {
"name": "Mahmoud Elafandy",
"email": "malafandi100@gmail.com",
"role": "Builder Fellowship",
"notes": "Recent graduate interested in data analytics and technology.",
"submission_url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/145QuseCj-OYE-oNIP7fNiUj38WIFtstIzwS95eoinhY/edit?usp=sharing"
"portfolio_url": "https://mhmodafndy.netlify.app",
"resume_url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WxyGlyDrxuWHmTYW0NHBDPRuZL7S1OnA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113815833324659549745&rtpof=true&sd=true",
}
}

{"success":true,"message":"Your application has been submitted successfully","career_application":{"id":"91fe6013-9190-43b1-a163-3e3ee24a7895","name":"xxxx","email":"xxxx","role":"Builder Fellowship","submission_url":"https://bryan.aedifi.net/windborne.html",
"resume_url":"xxx","notes":"E is for effort","created_at":"2026-06-22T11:21:24.738Z","updated_at":"2026-06-22T11:21:24.738Z","archived":false,"reviewer_notes":null,"portfolio_url":"https://youtu.be/m6r475xN9fs"}}%

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{
"career_application": {
"name": "P Unnyan Kumar",
"email": "unnyan.design@gmail.com",
"role": "Builder Fellowship",
"notes": "Multidisciplinary product/industrial designer, 4+ yrs across Dubai, Germany & India. I ship things that go live — DTEK (AI self-checkout kiosk) and Nubo (baby activity tracker) are both in market. I move across CAD, CMF, UX, and research, and I'm not precious about ideas. Excited by speed and by building hardware-software as one system.",
"submission_url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EmP7xu0J_1wqjuFDf0n3qNAZ6FEJrbVUCOSfo_tWlxo/edit?usp=sharing",
"portfolio_url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QJPGb4m-rR_qSs556oCD3jwizdFBLGDBem3PsJ2zfts/edit?usp=sharing",
"resume_url": "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ssz_5mhFUJI91kllqOQA096eSaSxA3s4/view?usp=sharing"
}
}

{
"career_application": {
"name": "Aashish Reddy",
"email": "aashishreddy1414@gmail.com",
"role": "Builder Fellowship",
"notes": "If you want to know how I actually work day to day, ask me anything on the call. I would rather show it than describe it.",
"submission_url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tyzYPcebkxNBvIGY_ANc9mF36uf-V3a9kVWhRKDOvs8/edit?usp=sharing",
"portfolio_url": "https://youtu.be/W4QmatsnhOA",
"resume_url": "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IlTY9zEktoN98d_XO1eyYlklXRq2KzT-/view?usp=sharing"
}
}