Summary
Abhishek Ray is a founder and seasoned infrastructure engineer with nine years of experience building deployment and reliability systems at Robinhood and Quora. He led large-scale migrations, zero-downtime upgrades, and a canary analysis system that prevented SEVs across critical services, and helped architect Robinhood’s Kubernetes-based deployment workflow. Now building Opslane (YC S24), he focuses on accelerating engineering velocity by blending developer workflows with LLM-powered tooling. Abhishek’s background combines hands-on systems design, cost-conscious cloud optimizations, and performance-first product thinking that treats velocity as the core competitive advantage. Based in San Francisco, he brings a pragmatic founder mindset informed by deep platform experience and a pattern for turning operational complexity into repeatable workflows.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego