About
Yousef Helal holds a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley and an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford. He has worked on FPGA infrastructure at Apple and Microblaze V development at AMD, and previously founded a startup focused on AI-powered shopping assistants for retail environments. He also served as a teaching assistant at Berkeley, with his instructional methods recognized in academic publications.
Yousef @yousefhll
Incredibly important. Once your site starts getting traffic you will be bombarded by bots, and Rupt is how you defend against them. https://t.co/qbg50F7ds8
Jul 28, 2026 Β· β₯ 12
Yousef @yousefhll
@KingJames new top github contributor btw: https://t.co/WElQ3XK0HG
Jul 24, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Yousef @yousefhll
BREAKING: LEBRON HAS CHANGED HIS MIND WELCOME TO VENDO (YC S26) @KingJames πππ Quote: "Basketball is cool but building the dynamic software interface of the future and letting users add their own features and micro-apps on top of your product is 100x cooler" https://t.co/OVVjMCYmgq
Jul 24, 2026 Β· β₯ 27 Β· β 2
Founder at VendoYC S26
Intro paths
Yousef 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 Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Vendo's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Yousef can intro founders to Vendo's investors below.
Vendo's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Vendo
