(0084) engineering leadership turned founders from Google, Sentry, Salesforce, and Clever

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Early Stage Founders

• Anish Das Sarma

  • Ex-AirBnB and ex-Google engineering leader now working on Reinforce Labs (solving problems for enterprise startups, likely has some initial funding).

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Ben Vinegar

  • Building in stealth for just two months, ex-VP Engineering at Sentry.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Yoni Michael

  • Infrastructure engineering leader at Tecton and Salesforce working in stealth for two years and connecting with VCs.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Abhijith Shastry

  • Long-time director of engineering at Google (13yr) now exploring.

  • LinkedIn

• Rafael Garcia

  • Building Kernel, a platform to deploy and scale web agents. Previously Co-Founder and CTO at Clever.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Mudassir Mustafa

  • Building Rebase, a DevOps copilot that automates workflows using plain English instructions instead of YAML or Terraform. Repeat founder and product leader.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Chloe Samaha (Twitter, LinkedIn) - BOND, a YC X25 company building an AI Chief of Staff, and serves as US Associate Director at Sigma Squared Society

• Igor Zalutski (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Digger, building AI for DevOps, and previously served as CTO at Tictrac

• Shehjad Khan (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Butler, building AI tools, previously worked as a quant/software engineer at Goldman Sachs

• Pratul Kalia (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Tramline, a release dashboard for mobile apps

• Cristian Niamtu (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Nifty Learning, a Techstars '19 alum building software for enterprise workers

Investors Followed

• Nikhil Sachdev (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Shernaz Daver (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Vishal Lugani (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Rubén Domínguez Ibar (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Engineers Followed

• Federico Cassano (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Designers Followed

• Frank Guzzone (Twitter, LinkedIn)

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