Shubham Choudhary
FounderCTO & Co-Founder at FirstWork
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
FoundedFirstWork · YC
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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.
CTO & Co-Founder at FirstWorkYC S24
Intro paths
Shubham went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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 ↗
In turn, Shubham can intro founders to FirstWork's investors below.
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Co-founders at FirstWork

Experience
- FirstWork (YC S24)Co-Founder and CTOcurrent2024 — presentNew York, United States
- DeelDirector of Engineering2023 — 2024Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- RipplingSenior Engineering Manager2019 — 2023Bengaluru
- QuboleMember Technical Staff2018 — 2019Bengaluru Area, India
- ScribeTech lead2017 — 2018Bengaluru Area, India
- BuildTradersCo-Founder2015 — 2017Bengaluru Area, India
- LivSpaceSoftware Development Engineer2015Bangalore Area, India
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer2014 — 2015Hyderabad Area, India
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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 CTO & Co-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).
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,230
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Livspace mafia5
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Qubole mafia4
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Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar mafia3
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Also attended Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar4
Shared employers
Also worked at FirstWork (YC S24)1
Also worked at Deel40
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Also worked at Rippling47
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