About
CTO of Stoa, a marketplace for buying and selling GPUs. He previously worked as a quantitative developer at Uniper, building trading systems for financial oil and gas books, and studied computer science at UIUC.
Founder at StoaYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Kaan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Stoa's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Kaan can intro founders to Stoa's investors below.
Stoa's investors · 1
Co-founders at Stoa
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Berat CelikFounder
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Eren Berke SaglamFounder
Experience
- Stoa (YC S26)Co-Founder and CTOcurrent2026 — present
- UniperQuantitative Developer2025 — 2026New York City Metropolitan Area
- GetirSoftware Engineer I2023 — 2024
Skills & more
DevOpsProject ManagementOCamlKubernetesRedisSnowflakeContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Low LatencyAlgorithms1New RelicGo (Programming Language)Microsoft Azure
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)C++Docker ProductsSQLJenkinsSpinnakerPython (Programming Language)SQL Server Management StudioBloomberg TerminalAmazon Web Services (AWS)C (Programming Language)Languages Türkçe · İngilizce · İspanyolca
- Bloomberg Spreadsheet Analysis — Bloomberg
- Bloomberg Market Concepts — Bloomberg
- Environmental Social Governance — Bloomberg
From Kaan's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kaan Yigit?
- CTO of Stoa, a marketplace for buying and selling GPUs. He previously worked as a quantitative developer at Uniper, building trading systems for financial oil and gas books, and studied computer science at UIUC.
- Where does Kaan Yigit work?
- Kaan Yigit is Founder of Stoa.
- What companies did Kaan Yigit found?
- Kaan Yigit founded Stoa.
- Where did Kaan Yigit go to school?
- Kaan Yigit studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Y Combinator; The Koç School (IB Diploma Program Graduate).
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