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Jonathan Irwin

Founder

Founder at Cerebrium

New York, New York, United States

FoundedCerebrium · YC

About

Jonathan Irwin is a co-founder and CTO at Cerebrium with over eight years of software development experience, including prior work as a lead developer. He holds undergraduate degrees in Commerce and Finance Honours from the University of Cape Town and studied Data Science at Tilburg University.

Founder at CerebriumYC W22

Intro paths

YC

Jonathan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Cerebrium's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Jonathan can intro founders to Cerebrium's investors below.

Cerebrium's investors · 4

AUTHENTIC VENTURESOakland · $100K – $1M checksDepth VenturesSan FranciscoGradient VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks · since 2025Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2022

Co-founders at Cerebrium

MLMichael Louis
Michael LouisFounder

Experience

  1. CerebriumCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2021 — presentNew York, New York, United States
  2. OneCartSenior Software Engineer2020
  3. Scrums.comLead Software Engineer2013 — 2020
  4. Better ProgrammingTechnical Writer2019
  5. Sovereignty CapitalJunior Financial Analyst2013

Skills & more

React Native8React.js8Amazon Web Services (AWS)7AWS Lambda1Serverless Framework1Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)2AWS CloudFormation1GraphQL2Apollo GraphQLDocker1WebpackJest
+12 moreElasticSearchJavaScriptPython (Programming Language)R (Programming Language)Node.jsGitAmazon CloudFrontAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Knowledge SharingMentoringleadershipAnalytical Skills

Languages Dutch · English · Spanish

  • AWS Architect Associate — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Top 10% All time, 500k+ People Helped - Individual Contributor — Stack Overflow

From Jonathan's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Jonathan Irwin?
Jonathan Irwin is a co-founder and CTO at Cerebrium with over eight years of software development experience, including prior work as a lead developer. He holds undergraduate degrees in Commerce and Finance Honours from the University of Cape Town and studied Data Science at Tilburg University.
Where does Jonathan Irwin work?
Jonathan Irwin is Founder of Cerebrium.
What companies did Jonathan Irwin found?
Jonathan Irwin founded Cerebrium.
Where did Jonathan Irwin go to school?
Jonathan Irwin studied at Y Combinator (Alumni W22); Tilburg University (Data Science & Society Pre-Masters); University of Cape Town (Honours, Financial Analysis & Portfolio Management).

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Shared employers

Also worked at Cerebrium1

Michael LouisFounder at Cerebrium

Also worked at OneCart1

Michael LouisFounder at Cerebrium

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