Ismail Pelaseyed
Co-Founder & CTO at Superagent (YC W24)
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolIsmail Pelaseyed is a seasoned founder and CTO with 12 years of experience building product-focused SaaS and AI solutions from Sweden. He currently leads Superagent (YC W24), applying practical engineering to compliance-focused AI agents while maintaining hands-on backend work. Previously he co-founded and scaled companies across martech, mobile sales tooling and e-commerce automation—one of which was acquired—giving him end-to-end operational and go-to-market experience. His open-source contributions include adding secure API key and auth flows to the notable Superagent project using FastAPI, Prisma and Python, reflecting a security-minded, production-ready approach. Trained originally in organic chemistry, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-oriented mindset to product and engineering decisions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Organic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry at University of Gothenburg
English, Swedish, Persian, Norwegian
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Github Skills (21)
fastapi10
python10
apidoc10
data-modeling10
user-authentication10
authentication10
prisma10
api10
jsonwebtoken10
jwt10
bcrypt9
hash9
scrapy6
firebase6
react6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
superagent-ai/superagent
May 2023 - Mar 2025
🥷 Run AI-agents with an API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 releases, 306 reviews, 798 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ismail contributed to the back-end of the "superagent" project, focusing on adding authentication and creating an API endpoint. They implemented API key authentication and added support for user sign-in and sign-up functionalities, including password encryption and token generation, using a combination of Python, FastAPI, and a database through Prisma. Furthermore, they also introduced the concept of data models for agents.
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superagent-ai/super-rag
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
Super performant RAG pipelines for AI apps. Summarization, Retrieve/Rerank and Code Interpreters in one simple API.
Contributions:12 releases, 23 reviews, 51 PRs in 3 months
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