About
Bera Sogut is a cofounder at Orthogonal, which builds payment infrastructure for APIs. He previously worked at Google and Amazon Robotics, and was an ACM ICPC World Finalist twice.
Founder at OrthogonalYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Bera went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tyler Bosmeny, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Orthogonal's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Bera can intro founders to Orthogonal's investors below.
Orthogonal's investors · 3
Co-founders at Orthogonal
CP
Christian PickettFounder
Experience
- Orthogonal (YC W26)Cofoundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2025San Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2022 — 2025Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- LunchclubSoftware Engineer Intern2021
- McGill UniversityTeaching Assistant2020 — 2021Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Amazon RoboticsSoftware Development Engineer Intern2020North Reading, Massachusetts, United States
- IBMBack-End Developer Intern2019Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- CCL LabelEnterprise Resource Planning Intern2016Istanbul, Turkey
Skills & more
InteroperabilityTechnical ArchitectureComputer ScienceC++10Algorithms13Data Structures9Software Development2Agile Methodologies2Android App Development2C5Java6Python2
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JavaScriptHTMLCSSBashGitSQLMySQLReact.jsOCamlTypeScriptFull-Stack DevelopmentRedisLanguages English · French · Spanish · Turkish
- CodeSignal Proctored General Coding Assessment, Level 10/10, Score 849/850 — CodeSignal
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Bera Sogut?
- Bera Sogut is a cofounder at Orthogonal, which builds payment infrastructure for APIs. He previously worked at Google and Amazon Robotics, and was an ACM ICPC World Finalist twice.
- Where does Bera Sogut work?
- Bera Sogut is Founder of Orthogonal.
- What companies did Bera Sogut found?
- Bera Sogut founded Orthogonal.
- Where did Bera Sogut go to school?
- Bera Sogut studied at McGill University (Bachelor of Science - BSc, Major Mathematics and Computer Science).
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