Summary
Achintya Ashok is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building low-latency, cloud-native systems and leading teams from startups to large enterprises. As Co-Founder & CEO of OneGrep (Y Combinator W24) he combines product-first entrepreneurship with deep technical chops honed at Coinbase, Disney Streaming, and Goldman Sachs, where he worked on real-time trading and personalized discovery systems. He excels in designing scalable APIs and data pipelines on AWS, and has driven both hands-on engineering and team-building initiatives across search, personalization, and streaming domains. Known for shipping production-grade services in Java/Kotlin, Python and Node.js, he brings a pragmatic focus on latency, reliability and cross-functional stakeholder alignment. An NYU computer science graduate based in New York, he quietly pairs startup grit with experience operating at massive scale.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
OneGrep (W24) | https://www.ycombinator.com/verify/1xfftj30zr00slmk
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/onegrep, OneGrep (W24) | https://www.ycombinator.com/verify/1xfftj30zr00slmk
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/onegrep at Y Combinator
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at New York University