About
Narek Galstyan was an early engineer at Timescale, where he worked on core database features. He holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton, where his thesis focused on OS scheduling in Rust, and is a PhD student at UC Berkeley studying distributed systems.
Founder at LanternYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Narek went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer — the partner who ran Lantern's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Narek can intro founders to Lantern's investors below.
Lantern's investors · 4
Co-founders at Lantern
DQ
Di QiFounder
OC
Owen ColegroveFounder
Experience
- EDBPrincipal Software Engineercurrent2026 — presentBoston, Massachusetts, United States
- LanternFounder2023 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
- TaniumR&D Engineer2020Emeryville, California, United States
- TimescaleSoftware Engineer2018 — 2019New York City Metropolitan Area
- TimescaleSoftware Engineering Intern2018Greater New York City Area
- Princeton UniversityCS Lab Teaching Assistant2017 — 2019Princeton
- ForkizeBig Data R&D2015 — 2016Yerevan, Armenia
Skills & more
English14Cross-team CollaborationManagement4Leadership3TypeScriptResearch10Social Media4Apache Spark5PLpgSQLSQLLinuxCentOS
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BashDocker ProductsDatabasesPostgreSQLCOperating SystemsJavaScriptHTMLCSSHadoopPHPMySQLLanguages Armenian · English · Italian · Russian
- Functional Program Design in Scala — Coursera Course Certificates
- Functional Programming Principles in Scala — Coursera Course Certificates
From Narek's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Narek Galstyan?
- Narek Galstyan was an early engineer at Timescale, where he worked on core database features. He holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton, where his thesis focused on OS scheduling in Rust, and is a PhD student at UC Berkeley studying distributed systems.
- Where does Narek Galstyan work?
- Narek Galstyan is Founder of Lantern.
- What companies did Narek Galstyan found?
- Narek Galstyan founded Lantern.
- Where did Narek Galstyan go to school?
- Narek Galstyan studied at University of California, Berkeley (M.S. in computer science, Computer Systems and Networking); Princeton University (Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science); ETH Zürich (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science).
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