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Tabish Bidiwale

Founder

Founder at OpenSpec

Greater Sydney Area

FoundedOpenSpec Β· YC

About

Tabish Bidiwale was a team lead at Q-CTRL, where he joined as an early engineer and helped develop platform infrastructure and products through Series B funding. He founded OpenSpec, an open-source specification-driven framework designed to improve reliability in AI-assisted development.

Founder at OpenSpecYC W26

Intro paths

YC

Tabish went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) β€” any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner β€” the partner who ran OpenSpec's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β†—

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In turn, Tabish can intro founders to OpenSpec's investors below.

Experience

  1. OpenSpecFoundercurrent2025 β€” presentSydney, New South Wales, Australia
  2. Q-CTRLSenior Software Engineer2023 β€” 2025Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  3. Q-CTRLBackend Software Engineer2020 β€” 2023Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  4. Q-CTRLGraduate Backend Software Engineer2020Sydney, Australia
  5. BlackbirdFounder, Blackbird Giants Cohort 92025Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  6. UGLUndergraduate Engineer2018 β€” 2019Greater Sydney Area

Skills & more

Relational Databases1Python (Programming Language)2Django1GraphQLgRPCDocker ProductsGrafanaApollo GraphQLSQLGitPostgreSQLDjango REST Framework
+12 moreRESTREST APIRESTful WebServicesFastAPICeleryProblem SolvingCommunicationTeamworkComputer ScienceWeb DevelopmentAPI DevelopmentRabbitMQ

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Tabish Bidiwale?
Tabish Bidiwale was a team lead at Q-CTRL, where he joined as an early engineer and helped develop platform infrastructure and products through Series B funding. He founded OpenSpec, an open-source specification-driven framework designed to improve reliability in AI-assisted development.
Where does Tabish Bidiwale work?
Tabish Bidiwale is Founder of OpenSpec.
What companies did Tabish Bidiwale found?
Tabish Bidiwale founded OpenSpec.
Where did Tabish Bidiwale go to school?
Tabish Bidiwale studied at University of Sydney (Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science); Cherrybrook Technology High School.

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