About
Peter Gokhshteyn worked as a software developer at Google, Bloomberg, and Zynga before joining Perpetua as an early employee, where he led the engineering team through product-market fit. He is now building Tempo.
Founder at TempoYC S23
Intro paths
YC
Peter went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Tempo's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Peter can intro founders to Tempo's investors below.
Tempo's investors · 6
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Co-founders at Tempo
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Kevin MichaelFounder
Experience
- Tempo LabsCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2023 — presentToronto, Ontario, Canada
- PerpetuaEngineering Manager2021 — 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- PerpetuaSenior Software Engineer2020 — 2021Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- PerpetuaSoftware Engineer2017 — 2020Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Draper AISoftware Engineer2017 — 2021Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Six Club (Acquired by Draper AI)Founder & CTO2016 — 2017Waterloo, ON
- Bloomberg LPSoftware Engineer2016New York, NY
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2015Mountain View, CA
- ZyngaSoftware Developer2014Toronto, ON
- Enflick, Inc.Mobile Applications Developer2014Waterloo, ON
Skills & more
Java16Microsoft Office8C++7HTML 53SQL4Python6Github3Git3CSS5MySQL2JavaScript4PHP1
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RubyCSS3BashNode.jsIllustratorEclipseVisual StudioAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentDev-C++CygwinAmazon EC2Languages English · Russian
- Startup Engineering — Coursera
- Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1 — Coursera
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Peter Gokhshteyn?
- Peter Gokhshteyn worked as a software developer at Google, Bloomberg, and Zynga before joining Perpetua as an early employee, where he led the engineering team through product-market fit. He is now building Tempo.
- Where does Peter Gokhshteyn work?
- Peter Gokhshteyn is Founder of Tempo.
- What companies did Peter Gokhshteyn found?
- Peter Gokhshteyn founded Tempo.
- Where did Peter Gokhshteyn go to school?
- Peter Gokhshteyn studied at University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Systems Design Engineering); Richmond Hill High School (Ontario High School Diploma).
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