About
Alston Lin is the founder and CTO of OffDeal. He previously founded and led engineering at Bizwise, and held software engineering roles at Meta, Google, Yelp, PagerDuty, IBM, and Encircle. He studied software engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Founder at OffDealYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Alston 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 Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran OffDeal's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Alston can intro founders to OffDeal's investors below.
OffDeal's investors · 4
Co-founders at OffDeal
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Ori EldarovFounder
Experience
- OffDealCo-founder / CTOcurrent2024 — presentNew York, NY
- Orange CollectiveVenture Partnercurrent2025 — present
- MetaSoftware Engineer2020 — 2023New York, United States
- BizwiseCo-founder / CTO2018 — 2023
- WATonomousDirector (Software)2019 — 2020Waterloo, Ontario
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2019Greater Seattle Area
- FacebookSoftware Engineer2019Menlo Park, California
- PagerDutySite Reliability Engineer2018San Francisco, California
- YelpSoftware Engineer2017San Francisco, California
- IBMJavascript Developer2017Ottawa, Canada
- TruTech InnovationsFounder / CEO2013 — 2016Markham, Ontario, Canada
- Everest Media GroupFreelance Developer2016
- EncircleSoftware Developer2016Kitchener, Canada
- City of MarkhamLifeguard & Swim Instructor2012 — 2014Markham, Ontario, Canada
Skills & more
Java7Software Development6Computer Science5Mathematics2Business1Startup Development1Mobile Applications2Android Development6Customer Service6Teamwork4
Languages C · C# · C++ · English · French · Go · HTML / CSS · Japanese · Java · Javascript · Mandarin · Python
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Alston Lin?
- Alston Lin is the founder and CTO of OffDeal. He previously founded and led engineering at Bizwise, and held software engineering roles at Meta, Google, Yelp, PagerDuty, IBM, and Encircle. He studied software engineering at the University of Waterloo.
- Where does Alston Lin work?
- Alston Lin is Founder of OffDeal.
- What companies did Alston Lin found?
- Alston Lin founded OffDeal.
- Where did Alston Lin go to school?
- Alston Lin studied at University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Software Engineering); Y Combinator.
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University of Waterloo mafia200
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Orange Collective mafia23
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Shared employers
Also worked at Meta304
Nat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDGDaniel GrossMeta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDG and Safe SuperintelligenceDrew HoustonCo-founder & CEO of DropboxGabriel PereyraCo-founder & President of HarveyTinaInvestments & Portfolio Services Team Member at Clear VenturesMike ArpaiaComputer scientist working on machine learning and data infrastructure
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