Yahia Bakour
FounderFounder at Context.dev
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedContext.dev Β· YC
About
Yahia Bakour is currently building Context.dev. He previously worked as a principal software engineer and manager at Sunrun, was an SDE2 at Amazon leading development on a major retail checkout platform, and co-founded StockAlarm.io, which was acquired after reaching over 225,000 users.
Yahia Bakour @mynameisyahia
> catchup on sleep > put on blast online https://t.co/tBEn217XBM
Aug 2, 2026 Β· β₯ 6
Yahia Bakour @mynameisyahia
inspired by @tryramp who implemented this a while ago
Aug 2, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Yahia Bakour @mynameisyahia
anyone want to guess how we handle this while maintaining 100% lighthouse score ?
Aug 2, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Founder at Context.devYC S26
Intro paths
Yahia went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Context.dev's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Yahia can intro founders to Context.dev's investors below.
Context.dev's investors Β· 1
Experience
- Context.devFoundercurrent2025 β present
- SunrunPrincipal Software Engineer / Manager2025 β 2026
- SunrunSr Staff Software Engineer2023 β 2024New York, United States
- OPTICStaff Engineer2023
- Essense.ioFounder (Acquired by Optic)2023
- Stock AlarmCo-Founder & CTO (Acquired by Center Mark Capital)2019 β 2023
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer II2021 β 2022Seattle, Washington, United States
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer2020 β 2021Seattle, Washington, United States
- Boston University College of EngineeringTeaching Assistant: EC526 Parallel Algorithms for High Performance Computing2020Greater Boston Area
- Boston University College of EngineeringTeaching Assistant: EC504 Advanced Data Structures2019 β 2020Greater Boston Area
- Boston University College of EngineeringTeaching Assistant: EC311 Introduction to Logic Design2019Greater Boston Area
- Boston University College of EngineeringTeaching Assistant: EC330 Applied Algorithms & Data Structures2018Greater Boston Area
- Bank of America Merrill LynchGlobal Technology Analyst2019Hopewell, New Jersey
- Libring (Acquired by data.ai)Software Engineering Intern2019Greater Boston Area
- Libring (Acquired by data.ai)System Integration Intern2018Greater Boston Area
- Boston University - Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies (Pardee School)Web Developer2017 β 2019Greater Boston Area
- ASC EnglishMath Teacher & Private Tutor2017 β 2018Greater Boston Area
Education
- Boston UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BS, Computer Engineering2016 β 2020
Skills & more
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Microsoft Visual Studio Code.NET FrameworkASP.NET MVCC#Microsoft ExcelJavaScriptHTMLAlgorithmsData StructuresAnalog Circuit DesignMachine LearningWeb DevelopmentLanguages Arabic Β· English
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Also worked at Amazon356
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