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Shubham Choudhary

Founder

Founder at FirstWork

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

FoundedFirstWork · YC

About

Shubham Choudhary is co-founder and CTO at FirstWork. He previously served as Director of Engineering at Deel, where he oversaw development of PEO, immigration/mobility, time-off, and time-tracking products, and earlier held an infrastructure engineering role at Rippling focused on Employer of Record systems.

Founder at FirstWorkYC S24

Intro paths

YC

Shubham went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran FirstWork's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Shubham can intro founders to FirstWork's investors below.

FirstWork's investors · 4

468 CapitalBerlinActivant CapitalNew York · $100K – $50M checksGradient VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at FirstWork

VKVardhan Kapoor
Vardhan KapoorFounder/CEO

Experience

  1. FirstWork (YC S24)Co-Founder and CTOcurrent2024 — presentNew York, United States
  2. DeelDirector of Engineering2023 — 2024Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  3. RipplingSenior Engineering Manager2019 — 2023Bengaluru
  4. QuboleMember Technical Staff2018 — 2019Bengaluru Area, India
  5. ScribeTech lead2017 — 2018Bengaluru Area, India
  6. BuildTradersCo-Founder2015 — 2017Bengaluru Area, India
  7. LivSpaceSoftware Development Engineer2015Bangalore Area, India
  8. AmazonSoftware Development Engineer2014 — 2015Hyderabad Area, India

Skills & more

Strategy1Long-term Vision1Team Motivation2Problem SolvingCommunicationTeam Management2Management2Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS)Node.jsFlaskSASSPython28
+12 moreDatabasesC++JavaMicrosoft OfficeCCSSHTMLGitCore JavaJavaScriptMySQLSoftware Infrastructure

Languages English · Hindi

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Shubham Choudhary?
Shubham Choudhary is co-founder and CTO at FirstWork. He previously served as Director of Engineering at Deel, where he oversaw development of PEO, immigration/mobility, time-off, and time-tracking products, and earlier held an infrastructure engineering role at Rippling focused on Employer of Record systems.
Where does Shubham Choudhary work?
Shubham Choudhary is Founder of FirstWork.
What companies did Shubham Choudhary found?
Shubham Choudhary founded FirstWork.
Where did Shubham Choudhary go to school?
Shubham Choudhary studied at Y Combinator (YC S24); Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar (Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering).

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