About
Aditya Jayaprakash is co-founder and CEO of Blacksmith. Previously, he was an engineer at Faire where he focused on search infrastructure and ads, contributing to the ads platform's scaling. He holds a computer science degree from the University of Waterloo and a master's degree in theoretical computer science from the University of Alberta.
Aditya Jayaprakash @adijayaprakash
Blacksmith is part of @Redpoint's 2026 InfraRed 100 today. We started Blacksmith because CI needed its own cloud. Just over two years later, we're running millions of CI jobs every day for some of the fastest-growing companies. The same primitives we built to power CI will https://t.co/SbAlsSngl7
May 27, 2026 · ♥ 6 · ⇄ 2
Aditya Jayaprakash @adijayaprakash
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Apr 28, 2026 · ♥ 2
Aditya Jayaprakash @adijayaprakash
Making CI faster generally comes down to three things: 1. Throw more compute 2. Throw faster compute 3. Skip the slow parts entirely, usually via caching something We just shipped Container Caching, which falls into the third category. A lot of CI jobs depend on Docker. Instead https://t.co/ApYOj5GqQf
Apr 28, 2026 · ♥ 10
Founder at BlacksmithYC W24
Intro paths
Aditya 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, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Blacksmith's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Aditya can intro founders to Blacksmith's investors below.
Blacksmith's investors · 1
Co-founders at Blacksmith
Experience
- BlacksmithCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- FaireSoftware Engineer 22022 — 2024Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- FaireSoftware Engineer2021 — 2022Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
- University of AlbertaGraduate Research Assistant2019 — 2021Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- University of WaterlooUndergraduate Research Assistant2018Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- University of WaterlooUndergraduate Research Assistant2018Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- HubdocSoftware Engineering Intern2016Greater Toronto Area, Canada
- OpenTextQA Engineering Intern2015Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education
- Y Combinator2024
- University of WaterlooBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science2014 — 2019
- University of AlbertaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science2019 — 2021
Skills & more
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JavaScriptLanguages English · French · Hindi · Konkani · Malayalam · Tamil
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