Ali Sareini
Co-Founder & CTO at Nautilus (YC S25)
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAli Sareini is a founder and hands-on CTO who turned early frontline retail experience into a software-driven business thesis: converting anonymous one-time customers into recurring revenue for physical operators. With ~6 years of engineering and startup experience, he co-founded Nautilus (YC S25) to modernize the $15B car-wash industry and previously led a software consultancy, SABRES, while shipping production systems at Fidelity and real-time IoT visualizations. A Rodman Scholar (UVA CS) and Conrades Fellow at Dartmouth for Engineering Management, he blends rigorous CS foundations with product-first operational empathy. Ali is comfortable across the stack—real-time systems, money-movement infrastructure, and customer-facing platforms—and has a knack for identifying low-friction, high-ROI features that move the business needle. Based in Norfolk, he still references the day-to-day lessons from working the lot as the origin of his obsession with retention, a perspective that keeps his technical roadmap tightly coupled to operator economics.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Management Engineering/Industrial Management, Master of Engineering Management Engineering/Industrial Management at Dartmouth CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (24)
project-management10
crm10
team-management10
chat-application10
integrations9
tauri9
docker9
framer8
github8
typescript8
git8
window-manager6
tiling6
figma6
flutter5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xxxoooxoxo/nps-ostenda-webapp
Apr 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
xxxoooxoxo/nautilus
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Operations Tool for Car Washes
Contributions:8 PRs, 31 pushes, 9 branches in 8 days
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