Variance

Karine Mellata

Karine is an engineer and Trust & Safety leader who previously worked on Apple's Fraud Engineering, Algorithmic Risk (FEAR) team, which evolved into Apple's Trust & Safety function, tackling spam, botting, account security, and developer fraud for over a billion users. She co-founded Intrinsic (now Variance) to build AI agents for investigations and fraud reviews and to make the internet safer, one line of code at a time.

Lawrence Pan

Early software engineer at Variance, previously at Stripe, with experience building large-scale, developer-facing and financial infrastructure systems. As a founding engineer, he likely focuses on core platform architecture, integrations, and scalability.

Michael Lin

Michael is an engineer who previously scaled online abuse solutions at Apple and Discord, focusing on spam, abuse, and safety systems for hundreds of millions of users. He co-founded Variance (formerly Intrinsic) to build scalable AI agents for Trust & Safety and fraud investigations.

Michael Lin