Where does Chirag Mahapatra work?

Chirag Mahapatra is Founder of Blaze.

What companies did Chirag Mahapatra found?

Chirag Mahapatra founded Blaze.

Where did Chirag Mahapatra go to school?

Chirag Mahapatra studied at Y Combinator (W22); University of Chicago (Graduate Joint Degree in Computer Science x Booth); University of California, Berkeley (Master's degree, Engineering).

Chirag Mahapatra

Founder

Founder at Blaze

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedBlaze · YC

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About

Chirag Mahapatra is co-founder and CTO of Blaze. He previously served as an engineering manager at Facebook working on privacy, infrastructure, and data challenges, and led membership and authentication infrastructure teams at Airbnb following the acquisition of Trooly, an ML startup where he worked. He holds a graduate degree from UC Berkeley and an undergraduate degree from NITK.

Founder at Blaze YC W22

Intro paths

Chirag went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Chirag can intro founders to Blaze's investors below.

Blaze's investors · 6

Act One VenturesLos Angeles · $1M – $3M checks Bling CapitalMiami Beach · $1M – $5M checks Digital Currency GroupNew York FactionPalo Alto · $50K – $5M checks TRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital)San Francisco · $250K – $2M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2022

Co-founders at Blaze

Lauren RothwellFounder

Experience

MercorVice President of Engineeringcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
MercorHead of Applied AI + GM, Code Evals2025 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
MercorHead of Platform Engineering2025San Francisco Bay Area
StartupsAngel Investorcurrent2018 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Blaze AI (YC W22)Founder2021 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
MetaEngineering Leader2020 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
AirbnbEngineering Leader2017 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
AirbnbSenior ML Engineer @ Trooly (acquired by Airbnb)2015 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
UC Berkeley College of EngineeringGraduate Teaching Assistant2016San Francisco Bay Area
A9.com (an Amazon company)Software Engineer Intern2014 — 2015Palo Alto, California, United States
Bring Me FoodFounder2012 — 2013
Goldman SachsSummer Analyst2012

Skills & more

Python14Java12SQL9Matlab12C++8C6PHP4Linux2JavaScriptPython (Programming Language)1Clarisights2Algorithms10

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Machine LearningProject ManagementProgrammingOperations ResearchSoftware EngineeringData Structures

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Chirag Mahapatra?: Chirag Mahapatra is co-founder and CTO of Blaze. He previously served as an engineering manager at Facebook working on privacy, infrastructure, and data challenges, and led membership and authentication infrastructure teams at Airbnb following the acquisition of Trooly, an ML startup where he worked. He holds a graduate degree from UC Berkeley and an undergraduate degree from NITK.
Where does Chirag Mahapatra work?: Chirag Mahapatra is Founder of Blaze.
What companies did Chirag Mahapatra found?: Chirag Mahapatra founded Blaze.
Where did Chirag Mahapatra go to school?: Chirag Mahapatra studied at Y Combinator (W22); University of Chicago (Graduate Joint Degree in Computer Science x Booth); University of California, Berkeley (Master's degree, Engineering).