About
Ethan Shea is a Founder and CTO at Regbase. He previously worked as a staff engineer at Vercel, where he built observability infrastructure and developed an AI agent product, and at Citadel, where he maintained trading data systems. He studied at the University of Washington.
Founder at RegbaseYC X26
Intro paths
Ethan went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Regbase's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Ethan can intro founders to Regbase's investors below.
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Co-founders at Regbase
Experience
- RegbaseFounder, CTOcurrent2026 β presentNew York, NY
- VercelStaff Software Engineer2025 β 2026New York, New York, United States
- VercelSenior Software Engineer2023 β 2025New York, New York, United States
- CitadelTechnical Lead2022 β 2023New York, New York, United States
- CitadelSoftware Engineer2021 β 2022New York, New York, United States
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer II2020 β 2021Redmond, Washington, United States
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer2019 β 2020Redmond, WA
- Applied Physics Laboratory-UWEngineering Intern2019Seattle
- University of WashingtonUndergraduate Teaching Assistant2018Seattle
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineering Intern2018Redmond
- Applied Physics Laboratory-UWEngineering Intern2017 β 2018Seattle
- Triangul8Engineering Intern2017
- Tirebuyer.comIT Operations Intern2017Kirkland, Washington
- Technical Systems, Inc. (TSI)Engineering Intern2016Lynwood, WA
- CaradigmSummer Intern2015Bellevue, WA
Skills & more
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Debugging.NET FrameworkLanguages English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ethan Shea?
- Ethan Shea is a Founder and CTO at Regbase. He previously worked as a staff engineer at Vercel, where he built observability infrastructure and developed an AI agent product, and at Citadel, where he maintained trading data systems. He studied at the University of Washington.
- Where does Ethan Shea work?
- Ethan Shea is Founder of Regbase.
- What companies did Ethan Shea found?
- Ethan Shea founded Regbase.
- Where did Ethan Shea go to school?
- Ethan Shea studied at University of Washington (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science).
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,773
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University of Washington mafia114
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Shared employers
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