Where does Stephen Balogh work?

Stephen Balogh is Co-founder and CTO of s2.dev.

Where did Stephen Balogh go to school?

Stephen Balogh studied at Y Combinator (F25); NYU Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science (Master’s Degree, Computer Science); University of Chicago (Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy).

Stephen Balogh

Founder

Co-founder and CTO at s2.dev

Berkeley, California, United States

Foundeds2.dev · YC

Find your path to Stephen

200 people in our graph share verified history with Stephen — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Cameron McGinnunlockedStephen: together at Etsy (2021–2022)

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×3Stephen: together at New York University

×2Stephen: together at University of Chicago

About

Stephen Balogh previously led infrastructure work for product search at Etsy and developed repository software at NYU. He works on systems development with Rust.

Co-founder and CTO at s2.dev YC F25

Intro paths

Stephen 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 Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran s2.dev's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Stephen can intro founders to s2.dev's investors below.

s2.dev's investors · 5

AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks · since 2026 Orange CollectiveDanville Research Corporation TechnologiesTucson · since 2024 Transpose Platform ManagementHouston Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at s2.dev

Shikhar BhushanCo-founder and CEO

Dwarak Govind ParthibanCo-founder

Mehul Arora

Cristian Caciuc

Experience

s2.dev (YC F25)Co-Founder, CTOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
EtsyStaff Machine Learning Engineer, Retrieval Systems2023 — 2024Brooklyn, New York, United States
EtsySenior Machine Learning Engineer, Search Matching2020 — 2023Brooklyn, New York, United States
EtsySoftware Engineer, Search Infrastructure2018 — 2020Brooklyn, New York
New York UniversityData Services Specialist2015 — 2018New York, NY
New York UniversityAssociate2014 — 2015New York, NY
University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social NeuroscienceLaboratory Manager2013 — 2014Chicago, Illinois

Skills & more

PHPRust (Programming Language)Apache SparkDataflowLuceneScalaGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)KubernetesElasticsearchBazelSolrRuby

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GISDigital LibrariesAmazon Web Services (AWS)LaboratoryMatlabStatisticsTeachingData AnalysisDatabasesPythonJavaResearch

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Stephen Balogh?: Stephen Balogh previously led infrastructure work for product search at Etsy and developed repository software at NYU. He works on systems development with Rust.
Where does Stephen Balogh work?: Stephen Balogh is Co-founder and CTO of s2.dev.
What companies did Stephen Balogh found?: Stephen Balogh founded s2.dev.
Where did Stephen Balogh go to school?: Stephen Balogh studied at Y Combinator (F25); NYU Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science (Master’s Degree, Computer Science); University of Chicago (Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy).