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

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 · 4

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).