About
Suryansh Soni holds a Master of Science in Information Technology with a focus on Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has worked in the computer software industry.
Founder at Watto AIYC S23
Intro paths
YC
Suryansh went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Watto AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Suryansh can intro founders to Watto AI's investors below.
Watto AI's investors · 1
Co-founders at Watto AI
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Rishabh PanwarFounder
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Ishita BhandariFounder
Experience
- SalesforceLead Member of Technical Staff - Agentforcecurrent2025 — present
- Watto AIFounder and CTO2023 — 2025United States
- WishManager, Software engineering2022 — 2023
- WishSenior Software Engineer2019 — 2022Greater Seattle Area
- Wordly- Learn Words, Improve VocabularyCofounder2017 — 2019India
- Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Institute for Software ResearchData Intensive and Scalable E-Commerce System2019
- Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Institute for Software ResearchPipe-Crawling Activity Measurement System (PCAMS)2019Greater Pittsburgh Area
- Student IT Architecture Competition - IVSolution Architect2018 — 2019Greater Seattle Area
- Shri G S Institute of Technology & ScienceBackend and Analytics as a Service2017 — 2018India
- Advantal Technologies Pvt LtdFull Stack Android App Developer Intern2017India
- Cummins TechnologiesIntern2016India
Skills & more
Strategic PlanningLeadershipTeam ManagementPublic SpeakingTeam workAI AgentsLLM model evaluationSynthetic Data GenerationGenerative AIGuardrailsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Large Language Models (LLM)
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LLM FinetuningVoice AIAgentic ArchitectureSemantic CachingSoftware DesignMicroservicesAPI DevelopmentA/B TestingSystem DesignProject EngineeringProcess ImplementationTalent Acquisition and MentoringLanguages English · Hindi
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Suryansh Soni?
- Suryansh Soni holds a Master of Science in Information Technology with a focus on Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has worked in the computer software industry.
- Where does Suryansh Soni work?
- Suryansh Soni is Founder of Watto AI.
- What companies did Suryansh Soni found?
- Suryansh Soni founded Watto AI.
- Where did Suryansh Soni go to school?
- Suryansh Soni studied at Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Science in Information Technology, Software Engineering); Shri G S Institute of Technology & Science (Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering).
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