Aayush Shah
FounderFounder at Blacksmith · Founder at Blacksmith Software
New York, New York, United States
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About
Aayush Shah is cofounder and co-CTO of Blacksmith. He previously worked as a software engineer at Superblocks and as a systems engineer on the replication team at CockroachDB. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
Founder at BlacksmithYC W24
Intro paths
Aayush went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Blacksmith's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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Experience
- BlacksmithCo-Foundercurrent2024 — presentNew York, New York, United States
- SuperblocksSoftware Engineer2022 — 2024Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Cockroach LabsMember of Technical Staff2020 — 2022Greater Toronto Area, Canada
- Cockroach LabsBackend Engineering Intern2019 — 2020New York, New York
- QuoraSoftware Engineering Intern2019Mountain View, California
- GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2018New York, New York
- YahooSoftware Engineering Intern2018Sunnyvale, California
- YahooSoftware Engineering Intern2017Sunnyvale, California
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ScalaComputer ScienceHaskellSoftware EngineeringAlgorithmsLanguages English · Hindi
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Aayush Shah?
- Aayush Shah is cofounder and co-CTO of Blacksmith. He previously worked as a software engineer at Superblocks and as a systems engineer on the replication team at CockroachDB. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
- Where does Aayush Shah work?
- Aayush Shah is Founder of Blacksmith and Co-founder at Blacksmith Software.
- What companies did Aayush Shah found?
- Aayush Shah founded Blacksmith, Blacksmith Software.
- Where did Aayush Shah go to school?
- Aayush Shah studied at Y Combinator (Blacksmith (W24)); University of Waterloo (Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science).
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Also worked at Quora33
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