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.
shivani @shivanijpatel
I don’t care what anyone says if I’m gonna pay $7.50 for a latte I’m not going to leave a tip
Aug 2, 2026 · ♥ 99 · ⇄ 1
shivani @shivanijpatel
movie theaters where it’s acceptable to use your phone during the movie to prompt your agents
Aug 2, 2026 · ♥ 16
shivani @shivanijpatel
If I wasn’t building layers, I would work for Kate in a heartbeat. To all my terminally online friends, you can make money for scrolling https://t.co/hvsMyTtnF3
Aug 1, 2026 · ♥ 22
Founder at LayersYC F25
Intro paths
Shivani 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 Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Layers's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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
Education
- UC San Diego
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,668
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
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UC San Diego mafia92
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Same school
Also attended UC San Diego283
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Shared employers
Also worked at airpinpoint1
Also worked at SpaceX147
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Also worked at Turo17
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