Erik Quintanilla
FounderFounder at Refresh
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedRefresh · YC
About
Erik Quintanilla is co-founder and CTO of Refresh, with prior experience as an engineer at Capital One and Amazon, along with work at AI voice startups focused on data and scraping. He has a background in computer vision research.
Founder at RefreshYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Erik went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Refresh's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Erik can intro founders to Refresh's investors below.
Refresh's investors · 1
Co-founders at Refresh
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Christopher SettlesFounder
Experience
- RefreshCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Capital OneSenior Software Engineer2024 — 2025
- EricssonMachine Learning Engineer - LynkAI2023 — 2024
- ZipRecruiterSoftware Engineer2021 — 2023
- AmazonSoftware Engineer2020 — 2021Seattle, WA
- StealthMachine Learning Consultant2020Chicago, IL
- University of Central FloridaUndergraduate Researcher2018 — 2020Orlando, Florida
- Northrop GrummanSoftware Engineering Intern2019Huntsville, AL
Skills & more
Trading SystemsNext.jsAWS SageMakerAmazon Web Services (AWS)Representational State Transfer (REST)ScalaPython6Java9C++6Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)1Microsoft Office2JavaScript
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CKerasMongoDBGitDatabasesLinuxBashSQLWeb ScrapingData ScrapingTradingElectronic TradingLanguages English · French · Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Erik Quintanilla?
- Erik Quintanilla is co-founder and CTO of Refresh, with prior experience as an engineer at Capital One and Amazon, along with work at AI voice startups focused on data and scraping. He has a background in computer vision research.
- Where does Erik Quintanilla work?
- Erik Quintanilla is Founder of Refresh.
- What companies did Erik Quintanilla found?
- Erik Quintanilla founded Refresh.
- Where did Erik Quintanilla go to school?
- Erik Quintanilla studied at Y Combinator; Illinois Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (Summa cum laude)).
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