About
Akshay Subramaniam is co-founder of Haystack Software and formerly a software engineer at Figma where he contributed to product launches including multi-edit functionality, Find and Replace, and FigJam accessibility features.
Founder at HaystackYC S24
Intro paths
YC
Akshay went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was David Lieb, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Haystack's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Akshay can intro founders to Haystack's investors below.
Haystack's investors · 2
Co-founders at Haystack
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Jake YatvitskiyFounder
Experience
- Haystack SoftwareCo-Foundercurrent2024 — presentNew York, New York, United States
- FigmaSoftware Engineer2022 — 2024New York, New York, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2021 — 2022Mountain View, California, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2020Mountain View, California, United States
- University of Michigan College of EngineeringEECS 370 Instructional Aide2019 — 2020Ann Arbor, MI
- GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2019Mountain View, CA
- ITHAKAWeb Development Intern2018Ann Arbor, MI
- That Green SpaceFull Stack Development Intern2017Singapore
Skills & more
Agile MethodologiesWeb DevelopmentMobile Application Development1PyUnitAmazon RedshiftDjango1React.js1Java Spring1JavaPython1JavaScriptjQuery
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HTML 5CSSPostgreSQLAJAXRubyAndroidC++MySQLJUnitGraphQLNode.jsRedux.jsFrom Akshay's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Akshay Subramaniam?
- Akshay Subramaniam is co-founder of Haystack Software and formerly a software engineer at Figma where he contributed to product launches including multi-edit functionality, Find and Replace, and FigJam accessibility features.
- Where does Akshay Subramaniam work?
- Akshay Subramaniam is Founder of Haystack.
- What companies did Akshay Subramaniam found?
- Akshay Subramaniam founded Haystack.
- Where did Akshay Subramaniam go to school?
- Akshay Subramaniam studied at University of Michigan College of Engineering (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science).
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