About
Prashant Patel is the founder of OpenRelay (YC S26). He previously served as Staff Engineer at Voltagepark, where he worked on managed inference and orchestration software, and was a founding member of Amazon Bedrock at AWS, where he led the Custom Model Import initiative and scaled inference infrastructure for large language models. He holds an MS in Computer Science from NYU.
Founder at OpenRelayYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Prashant went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran OpenRelay's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Prashant can intro founders to OpenRelay's investors below.
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Co-founders at OpenRelay
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Jaden WangFounder
Experience
- OpenRelay (YC S26)Founder / CTOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Lightning AIStaff Software Engineer2025 — 2026Seattle, Washington, United States
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Senior Software Development Engineer2024 — 2026Seattle, Washington, United States
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development Engineer II2021 — 2024Seattle, Washington, United States
- IBMAdvisory Software Engineer2020San Jose, California, United States
- IBMStaff Software Engineer2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- IBMSoftware Engineer Intern2018San Jose, California, United States
- New York UniversityGraduate Teaching Assistant2018New York, United States
- New York UniversityGraduate Teaching Assistant2017 — 2018New York, United States
- IBMSoftware Engineer Intern2017San Francisco Bay Area
- New York UniversityGraduate Teaching Assistant2017New York, United States
- AlexapathSoftware Developer (NYU Fellowship Intern)2016 — 2017Brooklyn, NY
- Studentdesk.inAndroid app developer2014 — 2016Ahmedabad
Skills & more
Technology ManagementTechnology LeadershipMachine Learning9Data Science6Programming1Software Development2Android DevelopmentAlgorithmsProject ManagementCloud Computing1Go (Programming Language)1Data Structures
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Computer ScienceArtificial Intelligence (AI)Public SpeakingLeadershipTeamworkManagementCMicrosoft OfficeHTMLJavaC++Microsoft WordLanguages English · Gujarati · Hindi
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Prashant Patel?
- Prashant Patel is the founder of OpenRelay (YC S26). He previously served as Staff Engineer at Voltagepark, where he worked on managed inference and orchestration software, and was a founding member of Amazon Bedrock at AWS, where he led the Custom Model Import initiative and scaled inference infrastructure for large language models. He holds an MS in Computer Science from NYU.
- Where does Prashant Patel work?
- Prashant Patel is Founder of OpenRelay.
- What companies did Prashant Patel found?
- Prashant Patel founded OpenRelay.
- Where did Prashant Patel go to school?
- Prashant Patel studied at New York University (Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science); Gujarat Technological University (GTU) (Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering).
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