Summary
Carlos Feliciano is a technology entrepreneur and engineering leader with a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native and hybrid systems across startups and enterprise environments. As CEO and co-founder of Terracotta AI (YC S23) and prior founder of Hatchfi, he blends product-led growth with deep expertise in observability, APM, logging, and distributed systems. AWS-certified and experienced in technical client-facing roles, he has led solutions architecture, customer success, and incident management while driving platform adoption and partnerships. His background spans presales and systems engineering at companies like LogDNA, SwiftStack, and Cisco, giving him a rare mix of operational rigor and go-to-market savvy. Based in Las Vegas, he excels at translating complex technical requirements into practical, auditable systems and has repeatedly taken projects from idea to funded, market-ready businesses. An unusual strength is his decade-long foundation in retail and hospitality, which informs a customer-first approach to technical product design and support.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
n/a n/a, n/a n/a at Fork Union Military Academy
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bachelor's Degree Information Technology and Informatics, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology and Informatics at Rutgers University
Spanish