About
Nicholas Kao is the founder of Comfy Deploy, which provides a collaborative platform for building and deploying media generation workflows on managed GPU infrastructure.
Founder at Comfy DeployYC S24
Intro paths
YC
Nicholas went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future β the partner who ran Comfy Deploy's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Nicholas can intro founders to Comfy Deploy's investors below.
Comfy Deploy's investors Β· 1
Experience
- Stealth StartupFoundercurrent2026 β present
- Comfy DeployFounder2024 β 2026San Francisco Bay Area
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer2022 β 2024Seattle, Washington, United States
- Ad AurisFounding Engineer2020 β 2022Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- UBC Launch PadSoftware Developer2021 β 2022Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- ProcurifySoftware Engineer Co-op2021Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- The University of British ColumbiaCPSC 100 Teaching Assistant2020 β 2021Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Tutor Time ChildcareTechnical Intern2019Hong Kong
Skills & more
Rust (Programming Language)2C#2Networking2DDoS MitigationApplication Programming InterfacesSoftware DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureRelational DatabasesNoSQLNode.jsPython (Programming Language)Pandas (Software)
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Back-End Web DevelopmentJavaScriptTypeScriptReact.jsContinuous IntegrationGitTest AutomationProject ManagementGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Languages English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Nicholas Kao?
- Nicholas Kao is the founder of Comfy Deploy, which provides a collaborative platform for building and deploying media generation workflows on managed GPU infrastructure.
- Where does Nicholas Kao work?
- Nicholas Kao is Founder of Comfy Deploy.
- What companies did Nicholas Kao found?
- Nicholas Kao founded Comfy Deploy.
- Where did Nicholas Kao go to school?
- Nicholas Kao studied at The University of British Columbia (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); Island School (IB Diploma).
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