Andrei Soroker is a seasoned founder and product-oriented CEO with 18 years building developer- and team-facing communication tools, currently leading Fogbender (YC W22), a customer support platform tailored for API-first companies. He previously founded and scaled Sameroom, a chat interoperability startup acquired by 8x8, and has deep experience aligning messaging, telephony, and product strategy from roles at 8x8 and earlier cloud and media companies. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering (Erlang at Rdio) and executive product leadership, he focuses on enabling teams rather than individual users—a theme that recurs across his ventures. Based in Oakland, he pairs startup grit with a formal CS background from Embry-Riddle and continues to ship pragmatic solutions for complex real-time communication and support challenges.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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