About
Edgar Babajanyan is the CTO at Captain. He has published research in AI and NLP, previously built OCR engines at Boar's Head, and spent four years developing high-performance RAG pipelines and cross-region datacenter infrastructure.
Co-Founder and CTO at CaptainYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Edgar 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 Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator — the partner who ran Captain's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Edgar can intro founders to Captain's investors below.
Captain's investors · 4
Co-founders at Captain
LP
Lewis PolanskyCEO/Co-Founder
Experience
- Captain (YC W26)CTOcurrent2025 — present
- Hondius Capital ManagementAlgorithms and Data Engineer2025
- Reality InteractiveAI Software Engineer2023 — 2025
- Purdue Computer and Information TechnologyUndergraduate NL Researcher2023 — 2025
- Autonomous Robotics Club of PurdueHead of Software Engineering2023 — 2025
- Purdue UniversityUndergraduate Teaching Assistant2024 — 2025
- Bechtel Innovation Design CenterComputer Vision/Software Engineer2023 — 2024West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
- RocketbookSoftware Engineer Intern2022
Skills & more
Network EngineeringLeading Development TeamsSystems EngineeringPositioning (Marketing)Business-to-Business (B2B)Web DevelopmentEngineering3D Modeling3D PrintingPrinted Circuit Board (PCB) DesignMachine LearningComputer Vision
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MicrocontrollersProject ManagementDrone BuildingAndroid DevelopmentUAVLinuxAmazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Python (Programming Language)JavaScriptGitTrello- Enterprise Gen AI Apps — Weaviate
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Edgar Babajanyan?
- Edgar Babajanyan is the CTO at Captain. He has published research in AI and NLP, previously built OCR engines at Boar's Head, and spent four years developing high-performance RAG pipelines and cross-region datacenter infrastructure.
- Where does Edgar Babajanyan work?
- Edgar Babajanyan is Co-Founder and CTO of Captain.
- What companies did Edgar Babajanyan found?
- Edgar Babajanyan founded Captain.
- Where did Edgar Babajanyan go to school?
- Edgar Babajanyan studied at Purdue University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Network Engineering); Y Combinator; Purdue University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Systems Analysis and Design).
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