About
Faraz Siddiqi worked on Copilot at Microsoft and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from UIUC. He is now CTO at Bluejay, a quality assurance platform for voice AI.
Founder at BluejayYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Faraz 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 Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Bluejay's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Faraz can intro founders to Bluejay's investors below.
Bluejay's investors · 4
Co-founders at Bluejay
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Rohan VasishthFounder
Experience
- BluejayCo-Founder, CTOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer2024 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
- HatchCo-Founder, CEO2022 — 2024San Jose, California, United States
- University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignGraduate LLM researcher2023Champaign, Illinois, United States
- Intel CorporationSoftware Engineer2021 — 2022
Skills & more
GitRecurrent Neural Networks (RNN)PyTorchJupyter Notebook1.NET FrameworkAsanaAzure DevOpsFigma (Software)GitHub1Microsoft Azure1Amazon Web Services (AWS)C (Programming Language)
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Python (Programming Language)JavaTensorFlowSQLBashUnixLinuxSwift (Programming Language)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Retrieval Augmented GenerationLlamaIndexGPT-4Languages English · Hindi · Spanish · Urdu
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Intel Edge AI Certification — Intel
From Faraz's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Faraz Siddiqi?
- Faraz Siddiqi worked on Copilot at Microsoft and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from UIUC. He is now CTO at Bluejay, a quality assurance platform for voice AI.
- Where does Faraz Siddiqi work?
- Faraz Siddiqi is Founder of Bluejay.
- What companies did Faraz Siddiqi found?
- Faraz Siddiqi founded Bluejay.
- Where did Faraz Siddiqi go to school?
- Faraz Siddiqi studied at Y Combinator; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S., Computer Science & Advertising).
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