Where does Shikhar Bhushan work?

Shikhar Bhushan is Co-founder and CEO of s2.dev.

What companies did Shikhar Bhushan found?

Shikhar Bhushan founded s2.dev.

Where did Shikhar Bhushan go to school?

Shikhar Bhushan studied at Y Combinator (F25, Making); Constructor University (B.Sc., Computer Science); Symbiosis Law School, Pune (B.A., LL.B.).

Shikhar Bhushan

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Co-founder and CEO at s2.dev

San Francisco Bay Area

Foundeds2.dev · YC

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Shikhar Bhushan has worked on retrieval systems at Etsy, key-value storage at Facebook, and Kafka Connect at Confluent.

Co-founder and CEO at s2.dev YC F25

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

Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran s2.dev's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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s2.dev's investors · 17

AccelPalo Alto · $500K – $100M checks · since 2026 Clever Capital Eight Capital Founder CapitalSilicon Valley · $25K – $100K checks Grayscale VenturesLos Angeles · $125K – $1M checks Kleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks Materialized View Capital Orange CollectiveDanville PioneerToronto, Ontario Race CapitalPalo Alto · $250K – $2M checks Research Corporation TechnologiesTucson · since 2024 Ritual CapitalMenlo Park · $100K – $500K checks Spot VCNewark Transpose Platform ManagementSan Francisco Twenty Two VenturesPalo Alto · $50K – $250K checks Uncorrelated VenturesLas Vegas Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at s2.dev

Stephen BaloghCo-founder and CTO

Dwarak Govind ParthibanCo-founder

Mehul Arora

Cristian Caciuc

Experience

s2.devCo-Founder and CEOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
EtsySenior Staff Software Engineer2021 — 2023
EtsyStaff Software Engineer2019 — 2021
FacebookSoftware Engineer2017 — 2018Menlo Park, California
ConfluentSoftware Engineer2016 — 2017Palo Alto, California
Heap Inc.Software Engineer2016
Etsy, IncSenior Software Engineer2012 — 2015
BloombergSoftware Engineer2010 — 2012London, United Kingdom
conject AGSoftware Engineer2010Munich, Germany
The Apache Software FoundationGoogle Summer of Code student2009

Skills & more

Flink5Elasticsearch1Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Rust3Python14Java7C++2SQL1JavaScript2ScalaKafka6Lucene4

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SolrInformation RetrievalApache KafkaKubernetesDistributed Systems

Languages English · Hindi

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Who is Shikhar Bhushan?: Shikhar Bhushan has worked on retrieval systems at Etsy, key-value storage at Facebook, and Kafka Connect at Confluent.
Where does Shikhar Bhushan work?: Shikhar Bhushan is Co-founder and CEO of s2.dev.
What companies did Shikhar Bhushan found?: Shikhar Bhushan founded s2.dev.
Where did Shikhar Bhushan go to school?: Shikhar Bhushan studied at Y Combinator (F25, Making); Constructor University (B.Sc., Computer Science); Symbiosis Law School, Pune (B.A., LL.B.).