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Aayush Shah

Founder

Founder at Blacksmith

New York, New York, United States

FoundedBlacksmith · YC

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.

LinkedIn ↗

Founder at BlacksmithYC W24

Intro paths

YC

Aayush went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Blacksmith's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Aayush can intro founders to Blacksmith's investors below.

Blacksmith's investors · 1

Y Combinator

Co-founders at Blacksmith

A(Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash
Aditya (JP) JayaprakashFounder
AMAditya Maru
Aditya MaruFounder

Experience

  1. BlacksmithCo-Foundercurrent2024 — presentNew York, New York, United States
  2. SuperblocksSoftware Engineer2022 — 2024Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  3. Cockroach LabsMember of Technical Staff2020 — 2022Greater Toronto Area, Canada
  4. Cockroach LabsBackend Engineering Intern2019 — 2020New York, New York
  5. QuoraSoftware Engineering Intern2019Mountain View, California
  6. GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2018New York, New York
  7. YahooSoftware Engineering Intern2018Sunnyvale, California
  8. YahooSoftware Engineering Intern2017Sunnyvale, California

Education

  1. Y CombinatorBlacksmith (W24)2024
  2. University of WaterlooBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science2015 — 2020

Skills & more

Racket8C10Python10LaTeX7Bash5JavaScript9HTML8CSS3AngularJS3Node.js5C++7Git
+5 moreScalaComputer ScienceHaskellSoftware EngineeringAlgorithms

Languages English · Hindi

From Aayush's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Y Combinator1,464

Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorTed ChaiAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesYusuf SherwaniCo-Founder and CEO at Pelago; a Londoner living in New York City

+ 1,458 more

Also attended University of Waterloo206

Chamath PalihapitiyaFounder & CEO of Social CapitalKarim GillaniGeneral Partner at Luge CapitalRohan MongaInvestment Associate at Luge CapitalAndrew MiklasGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorAniTalent Team at Hummingbird VenturesAlex KolicichInvestment Team at 8VC

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Shared employers

Also worked at Blacksmith2

Aditya (JP) JayaprakashFounder at BlacksmithAditya MaruFounder at Blacksmith

Also worked at Superblocks1

Alex ClaytonPartner at Meritech Capital Partners

Also worked at Cockroach Labs12

Peter FentonGeneral Partner at BenchmarkMike VolpiInvestor at Index VenturesDave MunichielloInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Tristan HandyFounder, dbt Labs at Amplify PartnersArjun NarayanVenture Partner at Amplify PartnersLenny PrussGeneral Partner at Amplify Partners

+ 6 more

Also worked at Quora13

Helen MinEarly-stage investor and marketing advisor to startupsSarah SmithFounder & Managing Partner at Sarah SmithTiantian FangInvestor at Nava VenturesLucy GuoGeneral Partner at Backend CapitalJessica ShamboraPartner at MKT1 CapitalGautam ShewakramaniPartner at On Deck

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