Where does Sridatta Thatipamala work?

Sridatta Thatipamala is Founder of Flotype.

What companies did Sridatta Thatipamala found?

Sridatta Thatipamala founded Flotype.

Where did Sridatta Thatipamala go to school?

Sridatta Thatipamala studied at University of California, Berkeley (B.S, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Y Combinator (Founder, W11); Georgia Institute of Technology (Master's (Machine Learning Specialization), Computer Science).

Sridatta Thatipamala

Founder

Founder at Flotype

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedFlotype · YC

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Pat GradyunlockedSridatta: together at OpenAI (2025–2026)

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Sridatta: together at Georgia Institute of Technology

About

Sridatta Thatipamala is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, working as a research engineer on retrieval-augmented generation and agentic AI systems, with prior experience in search quality and backend data processing. He led the development of question answering and search ranking algorithms for medical records at Google Health, started the shopping team at Pinterest, and founded a developer tools startup backed by Y Combinator and a16z.

Founder at Flotype YC W11

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Sridatta went through Y Combinator (Winter 2011) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Flotype's investors · 2

Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2011

Co-founders at Flotype

Darshan ShankarFounder/CEO

Eric ZhangFounder

Experience

OpenAIMember of Technical Staffcurrent2025 — present
The Consciousness LabFounder2024 — 2025
LLM System Evals in the WildAuthor2024
GoogleSoftware Engineer2017 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
PinterestSoftware Engineer2014 — 2017San Francisco, CA
FlotypeFounder2010 — 2012Berkeley, CA
UC Berkeley Hybrid Systems LaboratoryUndergraduate Research Assistant2010 — 2011

Skills & more

Node.js24Python13Natural Language Processing (NLP)4Machine Learning22Reinforcement Learning15Snacks3

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Who is Sridatta Thatipamala?: Sridatta Thatipamala is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, working as a research engineer on retrieval-augmented generation and agentic AI systems, with prior experience in search quality and backend data processing. He led the development of question answering and search ranking algorithms for medical records at Google Health, started the shopping team at Pinterest, and founded a developer tools startup backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
Where does Sridatta Thatipamala work?: Sridatta Thatipamala is Founder of Flotype.
What companies did Sridatta Thatipamala found?: Sridatta Thatipamala founded Flotype.
Where did Sridatta Thatipamala go to school?: Sridatta Thatipamala studied at University of California, Berkeley (B.S, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Y Combinator (Founder, W11); Georgia Institute of Technology (Master's (Machine Learning Specialization), Computer Science).

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Founder at FlotypeYC W11

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Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia10,230

Stanford University mafia1,934

Georgia Institute of Technology mafia365

OpenAI mafia103

Same school

Also attended University of California, Berkeley2,000

Also attended Y Combinator2,000

Also attended Georgia Institute of Technology618

Also attended Stanford University2,000

Shared employers

Also worked at OpenAI186

Also worked at Google2,000

Also worked at Pinterest83

Also worked at Flotype1

Founder at Flotype YC W11