Where does Abhilash Chowdhary work?

Abhilash Chowdhary is Co-founder and CEO of Crustdata.

What companies did Abhilash Chowdhary found?

Abhilash Chowdhary founded Crustdata.

Where did Abhilash Chowdhary go to school?

Abhilash Chowdhary studied at Y Combinator (F24 Batch); IIIT Hyderabad (Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science); Virginia Tech (Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering).

Abhilash Chowdhary

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Crustdata

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedCrustdata · YC

About

Abhilash Chowdhary has led robotics teams at multiple companies through acquisitions and an IPO, including roles at Serve Robotics, Postmates X (acquired by Uber), and Robotwits (acquired by Waymo). He previously built large-scale data infrastructure at Yahoo! and holds a computer science degree from IIIT Hyderabad.

Likely email· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published

a•••@crustdata.comreveal75% confident

Co-founder and CEO at Crustdata YC F24

Intro paths

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

Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator — the partner who ran Crustdata's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Abhilash can intro founders to Crustdata's investors below.

Crustdata's investors · 6

A.Capital VenturesSan Francisco · since 2025 General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2025 Lobster CapitalSan Francisco SV AngelSan Francisco · since 2025 Transpose Platform ManagementHouston Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Crustdata

Manmohit GrewalFounder

Chris PisarskiFounder

Experience

CrustdataCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2024 — present
Serve RoboticsProduct2022 — 2024San Francisco, California, United States
Serve RoboticsEngineering Manager, Motion Planning and Controls2021 — 2024San Francisco, California, United States
UberRobotics Lead, Motion Planning and Controls2020 — 2021
Postmates Inc.Robotics Lead, Motion Planning and Controls (Acquired by Uber)2020San Francisco Bay Area
Postmates Inc.Robotics Engineer2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
RobotWitsSenior Robotics Researcher (Acquired by Waymo)2019Greater Pittsburgh Area
RobotWitsRobotics Researcher2018Greater Pittsburgh Area
ThinknumBackend Engineer2017 — 2018Greater New York City Area
Virginia TechGraduate Research Assistant2015 — 2017Virginia, United States
AdobeSenior Member of Technical Staff2014 — 2015Bengaluru Area, India
Yahoo!Software Engineer2012 — 2014Bengaluru Area, India

Skills & more

CeleryMachine Learning14Deep Learning8RoboticsAlgorithms11Data Structures11Bayesian inference1Distributed Systems2Information Retrieval1Scalability1Bayesian statistics1Shell Scripting1

+12 more

Computer ScienceiOS developmentMobile RoboticsROSQuantitative FinancePredictive ModelingAutonomous VehiclesAirflowExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)PythonJavaC++

Languages English · Hindi

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Abhilash Chowdhary?: Abhilash Chowdhary has led robotics teams at multiple companies through acquisitions and an IPO, including roles at Serve Robotics, Postmates X (acquired by Uber), and Robotwits (acquired by Waymo). He previously built large-scale data infrastructure at Yahoo! and holds a computer science degree from IIIT Hyderabad.
Where does Abhilash Chowdhary work?: Abhilash Chowdhary is Co-founder and CEO of Crustdata.
What companies did Abhilash Chowdhary found?: Abhilash Chowdhary founded Crustdata.
Where did Abhilash Chowdhary go to school?: Abhilash Chowdhary studied at Y Combinator (F24 Batch); IIIT Hyderabad (Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science); Virginia Tech (Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering).