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Gajendra Khatri

Founder

Founder at Payfura

India

FoundedPayfura · YC

About

Gajendra Khatri is an engineer who has held a head of engineering role and was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch with Payfura. He has experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, and has worked across AI agents, language model orchestration, and crypto/fintech applications; he previously contributed to building ExpaHealth.

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Founder at PayfuraYC S22

Intro paths

YC

Gajendra 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 Brad Flora, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Payfura's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Gajendra can intro founders to Payfura's investors below.

Payfura's investors · 2

Better CapitalY Combinator

Co-founders at Payfura

SASagar Agarwal
Sagar AgarwalFounder

Experience

  1. confidentialHead of Engineering — ExpaHealthcurrent2024 — present
  2. PayfuraFounder — Payfura (YC S22)2022 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  3. DoinGudPrincipal Engineer — Doingud2021 — 2022
  4. SpinnyLead Engineer — Spinny2019 — 2021Gurgaon, India
  5. PaytmSenior Software Engineer — Paytm2017 — 2019Noida
  6. AmazonSoftware Development Engineer — Amazon (Digital & Media)2016 — 2017Chennai Area, India
  7. Oracle India Pvt. LtdSoftware Developer — Oracle (Enterprise Products)2015 — 2016Bengaluru Area, India
  8. InternshalaProduct development intern2014Gurgaon, India

Education

  1. Y Combinator2022
  2. National Institute of Technology WarangalBachelor of Technology (BTech), Mechanical Engineering2011 — 2015

Skills & more

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)StartupsBlockchainLarge Language Models (LLM)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Python (Programming Language)SahiHiveAmazon PipelinesApolloDistributed SystemsExpress.js
+12 moreProxySQLCassandraPrometheusGrafanaPython/DjangoLuagoKeycloakAstroOpenAIMCP (Multi Agent Protocol)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Machine Learning — Coursera
  • Computational Investing, Part I — Coursera
  • Introduction to Finance — Coursera
  • C++ for C Programmers — Coursera

From Gajendra's professional profile.

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia8,668

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Sam AltmanPresidentFounded LooptFred EhrsamYC Summer 2012Founded CoinbaseMatt HuangYC Winter 2011Founded HotspotsTrae StephensYC Winter 2022Founded PursuitDelian AsparouhovYC Summer 2014Founded Nightingale +1Justin KanYC Winter 2018Founded Rye +3

+ 8,661 more

National Institute of Technology Warangal mafia2

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Shyam MaddaliB.TechFounded Coris

Same school

Also attended Y Combinator2,000

Leo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesJustin SwartPartner at Bitkraft Esports VenturesVictor SantosVictor Scout at One Way VenturesSwapnil JainCEO, Observe.AI at EMERGENT VENTURESChase AdamPartner at Very Serious Ventures

+ 1,994 more

Also attended National Institute of Technology Warangal8

Sangeeta BAVIHead of Startups and Growth, Anthropic India at SeafundKumar MettuInvestor at Sand Hill AngelsSridhar KummamInvestor at Crimson Investment FundVenkatramanan PKEngineering / AI at M33 GrowthKrishna ChittabathiniVenture Partner at Elevate CapitalKavinder SinghJoint Managing Director at Pidilite Industries Limited

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Shared employers

Also worked at Payfura1

Sagar AgarwalFounder at Payfura

Also worked at Paytm14

Neeraj AroraAll things business at WhatsApp; formerly M&A lead at Google for Local, Social and MobileHarinder TakharAdvisor at Roots VenturesAbhishek GuptaPartner, Credit at Trifecta Capital AdvisorsRavi AdusumalliCo-Managing Partner at Elevation CapitalVyshnavi KommuriFounder Experience Specialist at Waterloo Accelerator CentreSiddharth AgarwalVice President at Z47

+ 8 more

Also worked at Amazon597

Dave MunichielloInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Viswa SankaranarayananVenture Partner at Monta Vista CapitalAlessandro De BenedettiAssociate at NorthzoneScott JacobsonManaging Director at Madrona Venture GroupBill RichterCEO of Qumulo and venture partner at MadronaEduardo BlasiAnalyst at Inveready Technology Investment Group

+ 591 more

Also worked at Oracle India Pvt. Ltd371

Danny RimerPartner at Index VenturesAyshaAdvisor at Clear VenturesNatalie VaisInvestor at Spark CapitalMark SiegelPartner Emeritus at Menlo VenturesHope CochranVenture Partner at Madrona Venture GroupMark NelsonVenture Partner at Madrona Venture Group

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