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Kevan Dodhia

Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Alter

New York, New York, United States

FoundedAlter · YC

About

Kevan Dodhia is the CTO of Alter, a Y Combinator-backed platform for identity and access control in AI agent systems. He previously co-founded Compute.ai, where he developed compute infrastructure for regulated enterprises before the company was acquired by Terizza.

Co-Founder & CTO at AlterYC S25

Intro paths

YC

Kevan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Alter's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Kevan can intro founders to Alter's investors below.

Alter's investors · 3

boundless venturesMumbaiGood CapitalMt. PleasantY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Alter

SDSrikar Dandamuraju
Srikar DandamurajuCo-Founder & CEO

Experience

  1. Alter (YC S25)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
  2. Compute.AITechnical Co-Founder2021 — 2025New York, New York, United States
  3. Xcalar, Inc.Software Engineer2019 — 2021San Jose, California
  4. Xcalar, Inc.Software Engineer Intern2018San Jose, California
  5. Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearch Programmer2017Pittsburgh
  6. Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearch Programmer, RoboTutor2017Pittsburgh

Skills & more

Web Development3Sphinx3Snowflake3Apache SparkSoftware Architectural DesignSoftware DesignSoftware InfrastructureSoftware ArchitectureDistributed SystemsMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)OpenCV
+12 moreResearchData ScienceAmazon Web Services (AWS)DockerPython (Programming Language)ScalaPythonCJavaMatlabHTMLLinux

Languages English · Gujarati · kiswahili

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Kevan Dodhia?
Kevan Dodhia is the CTO of Alter, a Y Combinator-backed platform for identity and access control in AI agent systems. He previously co-founded Compute.ai, where he developed compute infrastructure for regulated enterprises before the company was acquired by Terizza.
Where does Kevan Dodhia work?
Kevan Dodhia is Co-Founder & CTO of Alter.
What companies did Kevan Dodhia found?
Kevan Dodhia founded Alter.
Where did Kevan Dodhia go to school?
Kevan Dodhia studied at Carnegie Mellon University (Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering); Y Combinator.

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