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About
Niyaz Puzhikkunnath is the founder and CPO of Papaya. He was previously a Senior SDE at Amazon, where he worked on large-scale ML systems spanning computer vision, classification, and LLMs/agents—including brand and product classification, agent evaluation workflows, and a self-service ML training pipeline—and earlier was an early engineer at Zovi.com, contributing to its front-end architecture and internal analytics.
Founder/CPO at PapayaYC F26
Intro paths
Niyaz went through Y Combinator (Fall 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Papaya's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Niyaz can intro founders to Papaya's investors below.
Papaya's investors · 8
Co-founders at Papaya
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Niyaz Puzhikkunnath?
- Niyaz Puzhikkunnath is the founder and CPO of Papaya. He was previously a Senior SDE at Amazon, where he worked on large-scale ML systems spanning computer vision, classification, and LLMs/agents—including brand and product classification, agent evaluation workflows, and a self-service ML training pipeline—and earlier was an early engineer at Zovi.com, contributing to its front-end architecture and internal analytics.
- Where does Niyaz Puzhikkunnath work?
- Niyaz Puzhikkunnath is Founder/CPO of Papaya.
- What companies did Niyaz Puzhikkunnath found?
- Niyaz Puzhikkunnath founded Papaya.