About
Sahil Goel is a co-founder at Rudus with prior experience at Amazon, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Northrop Grumman. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Construction Management from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Founder at RudusYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Sahil went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was David Lieb, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Rudus's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Sahil can intro founders to Rudus's investors below.
Rudus's investors · 1
Co-founders at Rudus
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Rishi PankhaniyaFounder
Experience
- RudusCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- Northrop GrummanSystems Development Engineer2025
- AmazonSoftware Engineer2023 — 2025
- Emory UniversityMachine Learning Research Engineer2021
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityGame Development Research Engineer2020
Skills & more
TypeScript1Amazon Dynamodb1Amazon SQSAWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)Amazon VPCCypressMatplotlib1NumPyReact.js1Node.js1HTML1Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)1
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SQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon S3AWS LambdaAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)AWS CloudFormationAmazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)API GatewayAmazon CloudFrontAmazon CloudWatchAmazon Route 53DockerFrom Sahil's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Sahil Goel?
- Sahil Goel is a co-founder at Rudus with prior experience at Amazon, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Northrop Grumman. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Construction Management from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
- Where does Sahil Goel work?
- Sahil Goel is Founder of Rudus.
- What companies did Sahil Goel found?
- Sahil Goel founded Rudus.
- Where did Sahil Goel go to school?
- Sahil Goel studied at Y Combinator (P26); California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Monta Vista High School.
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Shared employers
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