About
Roop Pal studied computer science at Columbia University and worked as a software engineer at Google and Waymo on computer vision and machine learning projects. He previously founded and bootstrapped a logistics SaaS startup to acquisition.
Co-Founder at Bild AIYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Roop went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Gustaf Alstromer — the partner who ran Bild AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Roop can intro founders to Bild AI's investors below.
Bild AI's investors · 3
Co-founders at Bild AI
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Puneet SukhijaCo-Founder
Experience
- Bild AICo-Foundercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Andreessen HorowitzAngel Investorcurrent2026 — present
- TruceCo-Founder2021 — 2024
- WaymoSoftware Engineer2021 — 2023Mountain View, California, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2019 — 2021Mountain View, California, United States
- Columbia UniversityTeaching Assistant2018
- Columbia UniversityStudent Researcher at Creative Machines Lab2017 — 2018
- Columbia UniversityStudent Researcher at Computer Graphics User Interface Lab2018
- IBMExtreme Blue Intern2018Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
- KPMGCognitive Automation Intern2017New York City Metropolitan Area
- Bard College at Simon's RockStudent Researcher2016 — 2017
- Bard College at Simon's RockTeaching Assistant2016 — 2017
- Affirmed NetworksSoftware Development Intern2016Greater Boston
- IcepirationBackend Developer2015Somerset, New Jersey
Skills & more
Leadership5ConstructionConstruction EstimatingAutomationJava, Spring, Hibernate, log4j, AspectJPython, Flask3MySQLJava Profilers, Jetty, Git, Maven, JUnit, Numpy, ScipyHTML, CSS and JavaScript, Bootstrap, Less, Sass, Node.jsSoftware Development4Machine Learning1Deep Learning1
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Deep Reinforcement LearningComputer VisionNatural Language Processing (NLP)RoboticsConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Supervised LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Computer ScienceC++SQLImage ProcessingData ScienceLanguages Bengali · German
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Roop Pal?
- Roop Pal studied computer science at Columbia University and worked as a software engineer at Google and Waymo on computer vision and machine learning projects. He previously founded and bootstrapped a logistics SaaS startup to acquisition.
- Where does Roop Pal work?
- Roop Pal is Co-Founder of Bild AI.
- What companies did Roop Pal found?
- Roop Pal founded Bild AI.
- Where did Roop Pal go to school?
- Roop Pal studied at Y Combinator; Columbia Engineering (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Bard College at Simon's Rock (Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science).
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