About
Bobby Zhong is a computer science student from UC Irvine who has worked as an engineer at Pirros (YC W23) and Replo (YC S21), where he focused on building coding agents and language models. He is now co-founder and CEO of Burt, working in the logistics space.
Founder at BurtYC W26
Intro paths
Bobby went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Burt's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Bobby can intro founders to Burt's investors below.
Burt's investors · 2
Co-founders at Burt
Experience
- Burt (YC W26)Co-Founder, CEOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- ReploSoftware Engineer2025 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
- PirrosFounding Engineer2024 — 2025Los Angeles, California, United States
- EducadoFounder2023 — 2024Los Angeles, California, United States
- Commit the Change, UCIFull-stack Developer2023 — 2024Irvine, California, United States
- PipeIQSoftware Engineer Intern2023Palo Alto, California, United States
- Moonwish StudiosCo-Founder2022 — 2023Anaheim, California, United States
- Rocker IndustriesContracts Intern2022Huntington Beach, California, United States
Skills & more
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)HTML5JavaScriptLangChainAmazon DynamodbData StructuresTypeScriptSAP Business OneFront-End DevelopmentRequest for Quotation (RFQ)Business DevelopmentSalesLanguages Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) · English · Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Bobby Zhong?
- Bobby Zhong is a computer science student from UC Irvine who has worked as an engineer at Pirros (YC W23) and Replo (YC S21), where he focused on building coding agents and language models. He is now co-founder and CEO of Burt, working in the logistics space.
- Where does Bobby Zhong work?
- Bobby Zhong is Founder of Burt.
- What companies did Bobby Zhong found?
- Bobby Zhong founded Burt.
- Where did Bobby Zhong go to school?
- Bobby Zhong studied at UC Irvine (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Y Combinator.
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