About
Vincent Garrigues has spent over a decade leading engineering teams, including at SoundCloud where he progressed from an early iOS engineer to director of engineering overseeing media streaming and player infrastructure, and at Dance where he worked across customer-facing and operational applications.
Founder at DexterYC F24
Intro paths
YC
Vincent went through Y Combinator (Fall 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Dexter's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Vincent can intro founders to Dexter's investors below.
Dexter's investors · 2
Co-founders at Dexter
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Bella WuFounder
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Caterina KiehntopfFounder
Experience
- Dexter (YC F24)Co-Founder, CTOcurrent2024 — presentBerlin, Germany
- DancePrincipal Software Engineer2021 — 2024Berlin, Germany
- Zalando SEHead of Engineering - Client Engineering Platforms2020 — 2021Berlin, Germany
- SoundCloudDirector of Engineering - Core Listener Experience2019 — 2020Berlin Area, Germany
- SoundCloudDirector of Engineering - Media Streaming2018 — 2019Berlin Area, Germany
- SoundCloudTech Lead, iOS2015 — 2018Berlin Area, Germany
- SoundCloudMobile Applications Engineer2012 — 2015Berlin Area, Germany
- FZI Forschungszentrum InformatikResearch assistant2011 — 2012Région de Karlsruhe, Allemagne
- IQ EnginesSoftware Engineering Intern2011 — 2012
- MBDASoftware Engineering Intern2010Région de Paris, France
- Bluestreak Technologies IncSoftware Engineering Intern2009Montreal, Canada
Skills & more
Objective-C7Ruby7Scala5Programming4Mobile Devices7Software Development5Mobile Applications3Software Engineering2Test Driven Development2Java9C2C++1
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MatlabVHDLFortranGitiOSAdaGoLanguages Allemand · Anglais · Français
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Vincent Garrigues?
- Vincent Garrigues has spent over a decade leading engineering teams, including at SoundCloud where he progressed from an early iOS engineer to director of engineering overseeing media streaming and player infrastructure, and at Dance where he worked across customer-facing and operational applications.
- Where does Vincent Garrigues work?
- Vincent Garrigues is Founder of Dexter.
- What companies did Vincent Garrigues found?
- Vincent Garrigues founded Dexter.
- Where did Vincent Garrigues go to school?
- Vincent Garrigues studied at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble (Master's degree, Mathematical modeling); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Diplom Informatiker, Computer Science); Lycee Janson de Sailly (Prepa, PCSI).
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