Where does Viswa Kotra work?

Viswa Kotra is Founder of Nodus Compute.

What companies did Viswa Kotra found?

Viswa Kotra founded Nodus Compute.

Where did Viswa Kotra go to school?

Viswa Kotra studied at Y Combinator; The University of Texas at Dallas (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science).

Viswa Kotra

Founder

Founder at Nodus Compute

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedNodus Compute · YC

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About

Founder of Nodus Compute, a YC-backed company. He previously worked at Citadel Securities, Snowflake, and Scale AI.

Founder at Nodus Compute YC F26

Intro paths

Viswa went through Y Combinator (Fall 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Nodus Compute's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Nodus Compute

Pranav VarshneyFounder

Experience

Nodus ComputeFoundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Citadel SecuritiesSoftware Engineer Intern2026New York, United States
SnowflakeSoftware Engineer Intern2026Menlo Park, CA
Scale AIGen AI Intern2025
Capital OneSoftware Engineer Intern2025
CadenceSoftware Engineer Intern2024 — 2025
The University of Texas at DallasUndergraduate Research Assistant2024Dallas, Texas, United States

Skills & more

C++7Quantitative Analytics15Data Pipelines2Apache Kafka2Databases2JavaScript9Low Latency1High-Frequency Trading1Execution SystemsHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Decentralized Applications (DApps)1Solidity

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OrderbookMultithreadingLLMsSnowflakeGoREST APIsDatabase TestingAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Languages English · Telugu

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Who is Viswa Kotra?: Founder of Nodus Compute, a YC-backed company. He previously worked at Citadel Securities, Snowflake, and Scale AI.
Where does Viswa Kotra work?: Viswa Kotra is Founder of Nodus Compute.
What companies did Viswa Kotra found?: Viswa Kotra founded Nodus Compute.
Where did Viswa Kotra go to school?: Viswa Kotra studied at Y Combinator; The University of Texas at Dallas (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science).

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