About
Shivani Patel is co-founder and CEO of Telemetron. She previously led development of AI support systems at SpaceX, including customer troubleshooting tools, chatbots for the Starlink platform, and on-premise coding assistants for engineers.
Founder at LayersYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Shivani went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Layers's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Shivani can intro founders to Layers's investors below.
Layers's investors · 1
Experience
- TelemetronFoundercurrent2025 — present
- airpinpointHead of Operationscurrent2025 — present
- SpaceXSoftware Engineer ll2023 — 2025
- TuroSenior Data Scientist2021 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- ServiceNowCustomer Research Analyst2017 — 2018San Diego County, California, United States
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Shivani Patel?
- Shivani Patel is co-founder and CEO of Telemetron. She previously led development of AI support systems at SpaceX, including customer troubleshooting tools, chatbots for the Starlink platform, and on-premise coding assistants for engineers.
- Where does Shivani Patel work?
- Shivani Patel is Founder of Layers.
- What companies did Shivani Patel found?
- Shivani Patel founded Layers.
- Where did Shivani Patel go to school?
- Shivani Patel studied at UC San Diego.
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