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Roksana Baleshzar

Founder

Co-founder & CTO at TectoAI

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedTectoAI · YC

About

Roksana Baleshzar is cofounder and CTO of TectoAI. She holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and spent over six years at Google developing machine learning features, including work on products reaching hundreds of millions of users. Her background includes expertise in real-time systems and data handling at scale.

Co-founder & CTO at TectoAIYC S25

Intro paths

YC

Roksana went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Tyler Bosmeny, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran TectoAI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Roksana can intro founders to TectoAI's investors below.

TectoAI's investors · 2

Treeo VCSan FranciscoY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at TectoAI

NANiosha Afsharikia, PhD
Niosha Afsharikia, PhDCo-founder & CEO

Experience

  1. TectoAICo-Founder & CTO2025 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
  2. GoogleSoftware Engineer2018 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
  3. GoogleSoftware Engineer Intern2018Mountain View, California
  4. Penn State UniversityGraduate Research And Teaching Assistant2015 — 2018University Park
  5. Koç UniversitySummer Research Intern2014

Skills & more

Machine Learning11Algorithm Design16Algorithm Analysis8Research5Generative AI13Python3Java16C++14C11HTML6SQL4

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Roksana Baleshzar?
Roksana Baleshzar is cofounder and CTO of TectoAI. She holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and spent over six years at Google developing machine learning features, including work on products reaching hundreds of millions of users. Her background includes expertise in real-time systems and data handling at scale.
Where does Roksana Baleshzar work?
Roksana Baleshzar is Co-founder & CTO of TectoAI.
What companies did Roksana Baleshzar found?
Roksana Baleshzar founded TectoAI.
Where did Roksana Baleshzar go to school?
Roksana Baleshzar studied at Y Combinator; Penn State University (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); Sharif University of Technology (Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology Engineering).

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