Emmanuel Turlay
FounderFounder at Airtrain AI
Oakland, California, United States
FoundedAirtrain AI · YC
About
Emmanuel Turlay conducted particle physics research at CERN before transitioning to tech roles including order and payment infrastructure engineering at Instacart and ML platform leadership at Cruise. He is CEO and co-founder of Sematic.
Founder at Airtrain AIYC S22
Intro paths
YC
Emmanuel went through Y Combinator (Summer 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Airtrain AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Emmanuel can intro founders to Airtrain AI's investors below.
Experience
- CoreWeaveDirector of Engineeringcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- Weights & BiasesMember of Technical Staff2025 — 2026San Francisco, California, United States
- Airtrain AIFounder & CEO2022 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- CruiseSenior Staff Software Engineer2021 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
- CruiseStaff Software Engineer2019 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- CruiseSenior Software Engineer2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- InstacartMachine Learning Engineer2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- InstacartTechnical Lead Manager2015 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- InstacartSenior Software Engineer2014 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
- Milestone Project Inc.Back-end Software Engineer2014San Francisco Bay Area
- WeLoveWordsLead Software Engineer2013 — 2014Paris Area, France
- Freelance Web DevelopmentFreelance Software Engineer2012 — 2013Paris Area, France
- official.fmProduct Designer & Manager2011 — 2012Geneva Area, Switzerland
- official.fmHead of QA & Software Engineer2010 — 2011Geneva Area, Switzerland
- NIKHEFPost-doctoral researcher2009 — 2010Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
- Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur LinéairePhD student2006 — 2009Paris Area, France
- Université Paris-Sud 11Teaching assistant2006 — 2009Paris Area, France
Skills & more
Python20Ruby on Rails16JavaScript12Ruby16SQL3PHP2C++4MySQL4jQuery4Logic Pro1MongoDB1Git1
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Open SourceBashPostgreSQLBackbone.jsDatabasesLinuxRESTJSONSoftware DevelopmentGuitarSongwritingWeb DevelopmentLanguages English · French · German
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Emmanuel Turlay?
- Emmanuel Turlay conducted particle physics research at CERN before transitioning to tech roles including order and payment infrastructure engineering at Instacart and ML platform leadership at Cruise. He is CEO and co-founder of Sematic.
- Where does Emmanuel Turlay work?
- Emmanuel Turlay is Founder of Airtrain AI.
- What companies did Emmanuel Turlay found?
- Emmanuel Turlay founded Airtrain AI.
- Where did Emmanuel Turlay go to school?
- Emmanuel Turlay studied at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI) (PhD, Fundamental physics); Paris-Sud University (Paris XI) (Master, Fundamental Physics); University of Glasgow (MSc, Physics).
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