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DevTools Founder Directory

Founders creating developer tools and infrastructure products.

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Craig Weiss
@craigzliszt

Software engineer with experience at Google, Meta, Snap, Lyft, and NASA. Early engineer at Scale AI before founding Rome (YC W22).

FundedTechnical
16 VCs
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Christian Mochen
@cmochen

Former Head of Build Engineering and Integrated Systems at Mach Industries, now co-founder of a stealth startup focused on industrializing autonomy.

Technical
16 VCs
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Walter Goodwin
@goodwin_ml

CEO & Founder of Fractile, building planet-scale AI inferencing infrastructure.

Founder
16 VCs
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York Yang
@yorkyang5050

Co-founder at Dyna Robotics, previously Principal Engineer at Instacart and CTO at another startup. Experienced engineering leader now building in the robotics space.

Technical
16 VCs
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Kevin Xu
@kevinxu

CEO of Alpha AI, focused on trading and financial alerts. Active trader who shares market insights and provides real-time trading alerts to subscribers.

Founder
16 VCs
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Steve.wasm
@nilslice

CEO of Dylibso, a WebAssembly platform company. Previously worked in software engineering with a focus on systems programming and developer tools.

Founder
16 VCs
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Ajay Mehta
@ajaymehta

Repeat founder currently building Portola. Previously founded Birthdate Co. and co-founded Therapy Notebooks. YC alum with experience at Wealthsimple.

Product
16 VCs
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Joseph Zhang
@josephhhhz

Stanford CS grad (BS/MS in AI) and former McKinsey consultant, previously software engineer at Nexus. Currently founder of CatchBack Cards, building a gamified Web3 platform for collectibles liquidity.

Web3TechnicalDesignResearch
15 VCs
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Scott Morton
@scottgmorton

Former SpaceX engineer (9 years) who worked his way up to Software Engineering Manager on Starship, now founder and CEO of Revel, building software to control machines.

FundedTechnicalResearch
15 VCs
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Bala Selvam
@balaselvam

CTO at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command focused on scaling next-generation national security technology. Works on unblocking builders at the edge with emphasis on AI, quantum computing, and American dynamism.

Web3TechnicalOperations
15 VCs
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