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Adhityaa Chandrasekar

Founder

Founder at Subtrace

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedSubtrace · YC

About

Adhityaa Chandrasekar studied at the University of Waterloo and IIT Madras, and previously worked as a software engineer at Google on Kubernetes and GKE infrastructure monitoring. He is now founder and CEO of Subtrace.

Founder at SubtraceYC W25

Intro paths

YC

Adhityaa went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Subtrace's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Adhityaa can intro founders to Subtrace's investors below.

Subtrace's investors · 3

Northside VenturesToronto · $73K – $365K checksRoot Ventures Manager, LlcSan Francisco · $3M – $5M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Subtrace

SSSachin Sridhar
Sachin SridharFounder

Experience

  1. Subtrace (YC W25)Founder, CEOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. GoogleSoftware Engineer2020 — 2022
  3. GoogleSoftware Engineer Intern2019
  4. LinkedInSite Reliability Engineer Intern2019
  5. Goldman SachsSummer Analyst Intern2017
  6. AmazonSoftware Engineer Intern2016

Skills & more

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Adhityaa Chandrasekar?
Adhityaa Chandrasekar studied at the University of Waterloo and IIT Madras, and previously worked as a software engineer at Google on Kubernetes and GKE infrastructure monitoring. He is now founder and CEO of Subtrace.
Where does Adhityaa Chandrasekar work?
Adhityaa Chandrasekar is Founder of Subtrace.
What companies did Adhityaa Chandrasekar found?
Adhityaa Chandrasekar founded Subtrace.
Where did Adhityaa Chandrasekar go to school?
Adhityaa Chandrasekar studied at University of Waterloo (Master's in Computer Science); Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Bachelor's in Engineering Physics).

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