Justin Torre
FounderCEO / Founder at Helicone
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedHelicone · YC
About
Justin Torre is the founder of Helicone, an LLM developer platform. He previously worked as a developer evangelist and teacher at Apple, and brings over five years of experience building and working on various software projects.
CEO / Founder at HeliconeYC W23
Intro paths
YC
Justin went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Helicone's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Justin can intro founders to Helicone's investors below.
Helicone's investors · 1
Co-founders at Helicone
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Barak OshriFounder
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Scott NguyenFounder
Experience
- MintlifyHead of Enterprise Solutionscurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- HeliconeFounder / CEO2023 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
- SisuRust Product Engineer2021 — 2022San Francisco, CA
- rwtp.org (YC S22)Software Contractor2022
- AppleSoftware Engineer2020 — 2021Cupertino, California, United States
- Sandbox at NortheasternStudent Developer2019 — 2020
- Intel CorporationSoftware Engineer Coop2019San Francisco Bay Area
- Northeastern UniversityTutor First Year Engineering Center2018 — 2019
- Lutron ElectronicsEmbedded Engineer Coop2018Greater Boston
- North Atlantic Industries, Inc.Software Engineer Internship2017New York City Metropolitan Area
- Northeastern UniversityTeachers Aide2017Greater Boston
- North Atlantic Industries, Inc.Software Engineer/Test Engineer Intern2016Bohemia, New York
Skills & more
C++17C9C#7Research11Teaching9Web Development2Customer Service7Leadership8Microsoft Excel13Databases1PSpice2Verilog1
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Qt CreatorMicrosoft Visual Studio C++MatlabField-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)AutoCADPythonC (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)From Justin's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Justin Torre?
- Justin Torre is the founder of Helicone, an LLM developer platform. He previously worked as a developer evangelist and teacher at Apple, and brings over five years of experience building and working on various software projects.
- Where does Justin Torre work?
- Justin Torre is CEO / Founder of Helicone.
- What companies did Justin Torre found?
- Justin Torre founded Helicone.
- Where did Justin Torre go to school?
- Justin Torre studied at Y Combinator (W23); Northeastern University (Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering and Computer Science).
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