About
Ashwin Venkatesh Raman held engineering roles at Instacart, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Alexa, and Nvidia, and studied at the University of Waterloo; he is now founder and CTO of Spine AI.
Founder at Spine AIYC S23
Intro paths
YC
Ashwin went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Spine AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Ashwin can intro founders to Spine AI's investors below.
Spine AI's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Spine AI
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Akshay BudhkarFounder
Experience
- Spine AICo-founder and CTOcurrent2023 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- InstacartSenior Software Engineer2021 β 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer II, AWS Aurora2019 β 2021Toronto, Canada Area
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer II, Alexa Speech2019Toronto, Canada Area
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer I, Alexa Speech2017 β 2019Toronto, Canada Area
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer, AWS Snowmobile2016Vancouver, Canada Area
- NVIDIASystems Software Engineer, Tegra2015Santa Clara, California
- University of WaterlooUndergraduate Research Assistant, CyberSecurity and Privacy Institute2015
- SkyWave Mobile CommunicationsEmbedded Systems and Networks Engineer2015
- University of WaterlooUndergraduate Research Assistant, Real-time Embedded Systems Lab2014University of Waterloo
- Blue Coat SystemsSoftware Development Engineer - Security2014Waterloo, Canada
- Harris CorporationApplication Developer2013Kitchener, Canada Area
- Harris CorporationApplication Developer2012 β 2013Kitchener, Canada Area
Skills & more
Java14Python18C++1Embedded Systems3AndroidLinuxAlexaProgramming18Machine LearningObject Oriented Design1Control Systems Design1Agile
Languages English Β· Hindi Β· Tamil
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ashwin Venkatesh Raman?
- Ashwin Venkatesh Raman held engineering roles at Instacart, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Alexa, and Nvidia, and studied at the University of Waterloo; he is now founder and CTO of Spine AI.
- Where does Ashwin Venkatesh Raman work?
- Ashwin Venkatesh Raman is Founder of Spine AI.
- What companies did Ashwin Venkatesh Raman found?
- Ashwin Venkatesh Raman founded Spine AI.
- Where did Ashwin Venkatesh Raman go to school?
- Ashwin Venkatesh Raman studied at Y Combinator; University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Honors, with Distinction); Nanyang Technological University Singapore (Global Exchange Program, Computer Engineering).
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