Taira Fujioka
FounderCo-Founder & CTO at Smartbase
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedSmartbase · YC
About
Taira Fujioka is CTO of Smartbase. Previously, Fujioka was a Software Development Engineer at AWS, working on SageMaker and Bedrock Inference infrastructure for enterprise clients including Salesforce and JP Morgan.
Co-Founder & CTO at SmartbaseYC X26
Intro paths
Taira went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Smartbase's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Taira can intro founders to Smartbase's investors below.
Smartbase's investors · 1
Experience
- ProliferateFounding Engineercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- SmartbaseCo-Founder & CTO2025 — 2026San Francisco, California, United States
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)SDE I / SDE II2022 — 2025New York, New York, United States
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development Engineer Intern2021Seattle, Washington, United States
- UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital PartnersIntern2021Tokyo, Japan
- NEC Laboratories Europe GmbHIntern2019Heidelberg Area, Germany
- CERNIntern2017Geneva, Switzerland
Skills & more
Languages English · Japanese
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Taira Fujioka?
- Taira Fujioka is CTO of Smartbase. Previously, Fujioka was a Software Development Engineer at AWS, working on SageMaker and Bedrock Inference infrastructure for enterprise clients including Salesforce and JP Morgan.
- Where does Taira Fujioka work?
- Taira Fujioka is Co-Founder & CTO of Smartbase.
- What companies did Taira Fujioka found?
- Taira Fujioka founded Smartbase.
- Where did Taira Fujioka go to school?
- Taira Fujioka studied at Y Combinator (S25); University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science); Collège du Léman - International School (International Baccalaureate, HL: Math).
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