Summary
Alaz Sengul is a founder and engineer with eight years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems and startups from idea to scale. As Co-Founder and CTO of Garage, a Y Combinator-backed startup modernizing heavy equipment commerce, he blends product intuition with hands-on system design. His prior roles at Twitter and Mem focused on distributed stream processing and real-time pipelines that feed ML models, measurement, and billingādemonstrating deep expertise in low-latency data infrastructure. Alaz has co-founded earlier ventures and shipped features across fast-moving teams, pairing startup grit with disciplined engineering. Based in New York and trained at Columbia, he brings both entrepreneurial leadership and implementation fluency across backend, data, and systems engineering. An under-the-radar strength is his repeated ability to move between founding roles and senior engineering positions, translating product constraints into reliable, scalable architectures.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor of Science - B.S., Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - B.S., Computer Science at Columbia University
High School, High School at Gulliver Preparatory School