About
Norbu Sonam is co-founder and CTO of Sherpa, a Y Combinator company building autonomous growth experiments. He previously worked at Lindy on agent infrastructure and growth initiatives, and before that contributed to image generation features shipped in Microsoft Copilot.
Founder at SherpaYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Norbu went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Sherpa's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Norbu can intro founders to Sherpa's investors below.
Sherpa's investors Β· 4
Co-founders at Sherpa
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Ethan KinnanFounder
Experience
- Sherpa (YC P26)Co-Foundercurrent2026 β presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- LindySoftware Engineer2025 β 2026San Francisco, California, United States
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer II2024Mountain View, California, United States
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer2022 β 2024Mountain View, California, United States
- TappleCo-op Full Stack Developer2021Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer Intern2021Redmond, Washington, United States
- Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUndergraduate Student Researcher2020Troy, New York, United States
- MicrosoftExplore Intern2020Redmond, Washington, United States
- IBMBackend Developer Co-op2020Littleton, Massachusetts
- EvenKeel Performance InsolesSoftware Engineer Intern2019Brookline, MA
Skills & more
TypeScript1Large Language Models (LLM)1Text-to-Image Generation1MentoringSoftware DevelopmentTeamwork3Go (Programming Language)PythonC++4JavaScriptNode.jsGithub2
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HTMLSwiftXcodeCSSC#SQLMongoDBLeadershipLanguages English Β· Spanish Β· Tibetan
- Microsoft E+D Divisional Fix Hack Learn (FHL) 2024 Participant β Microsoft
- Microsoft Global Hackathon 2023 Award Winner β Microsoft
- Microsoft Global Hackathon 2023 β Microsoft
- Microsoft Student Hackathon 2021 β Microsoft
- Software Engineering Virtual Experience β InsideSherpa
- Machine Learning with Python - Level 1 β IBM
- Data Science Foundations - Level 1 β IBM
- Big Data Foundations - Level 1 β IBM
- Docker Essentials: A Developer Introduction β IBM
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Norbu Sonam?
- Norbu Sonam is co-founder and CTO of Sherpa, a Y Combinator company building autonomous growth experiments. He previously worked at Lindy on agent infrastructure and growth initiatives, and before that contributed to image generation features shipped in Microsoft Copilot.
- Where does Norbu Sonam work?
- Norbu Sonam is Founder of Sherpa.
- What companies did Norbu Sonam found?
- Norbu Sonam founded Sherpa.
- Where did Norbu Sonam go to school?
- Norbu Sonam studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science).
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