Ayan Bandyopadhyay is a San Francisco Bay Area software engineer and two-time founder with 10 years of experience building product-first engineering teams and developer tools. He co-founded Finic (YC W23) after helping scale trust and safety systems at Robinhood and contributing to crypto tooling at CoinTracker. Previously he co-founded RTCanary (YC S20), a real-time analytics startup for video conferencing, reflecting a pattern of shipping observability and diagnostic products. His background spans game engines and tooling at Activision and Niantic, plus academic research at Caltech and Stanford where he built data-driven analysis pipelines for neuroscience and biomedical applications. A Caltech CS graduate with a 3.9 GPA, he blends rigorous engineering and research instincts with hands-on product delivery. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex telemetry into actionable features that improve product reliability and user trust.
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