Parth Chopra
FounderCo-Founder and CTO at Candle
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedCandle · YC
About
Parth Chopra is Co-founder and CTO at Encore, where he works on consumer AI products. He previously held roles in ads relevance and ranking at Twitter and contributed to infrastructure work on sharing and permissions systems at Asana.
Co-Founder and CTO at CandleYC F24
Intro paths
YC
Parth went through Y Combinator (Fall 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Candle's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Parth can intro founders to Candle's investors below.
Candle's investors · 4
Co-founders at Candle
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Alex RuberCo-Founder and CEO
Experience
- Candle (YC F24)Co-Founder and CTOcurrent2024 — present
- AsanaSoftware Engineer2024San Francisco Bay Area
- FederatoSenior Software Engineer2023 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- XSoftware Engineer II2022 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- XSoftware Engineer2021 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
- TwitterSoftware Engineer Intern2020San Francisco Bay Area
- Berkeley SkyDeckCo-Founder, Bids Events2019 — 2020Berkeley, CA
- Synapse CapitalData Science Intern2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- SymphonyAISoftware Engineer Intern2018Los Altos, CA
Skills & more
KubernetesQuality AssuranceLarge Language Models (LLM)ContainerizationTypeScriptSoftware DesignSoftware Project ManagementUser Interface Design6User Experience Design6LISP5Data Analysis5Social Media Marketing7
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ConsultingMathematicsFinancial AnalysisObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Public SpeakingMongoDBDjangoGraphQLNestJSPython (Programming Language)ScalaReact.jsLanguages English · French · Hindi · Punjabi
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences — University of California, Berkeley
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Parth Chopra?
- Parth Chopra is Co-founder and CTO at Encore, where he works on consumer AI products. He previously held roles in ads relevance and ranking at Twitter and contributed to infrastructure work on sharing and permissions systems at Asana.
- Where does Parth Chopra work?
- Parth Chopra is Co-Founder and CTO of Candle.
- What companies did Parth Chopra found?
- Parth Chopra founded Candle.
- Where did Parth Chopra go to school?
- Parth Chopra studied at Y Combinator; University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Science (BS), EECS); International Baccalaureate (High School).
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