Kushal Byatnal
Co-founder & CEO at Extend
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKushal Byatnal is a founder and engineering leader with 10 years of experience building high-growth product and platform companies, currently scaling Extend (YC W23) as Co-founder & CEO to become the operating system for modern enterprise workflows. He previously co-founded Stir (backed by a16z and other top investors) and was an early technical lead at Brex, combining startup grit with enterprise-grade execution. His background spans NLP and ads infrastructure at Google and applied computer vision at Amazon Robotics, giving him a strong foundation in ML-driven systems and large-scale engineering. Based in New York, he is comfortable moving between hands-on technical work and investor-facing leadership, and he often focuses on turning complex workflow problems into productized, scalable solutions. An early exposure to scientific computing and electronics (from Duke research and lab work) hints at a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to product design.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Duke University
Github Skills (64)
expressjs9
google-api9
client-library9
parse9
tiktok-api9
trending9
api8
gift8
js-client8
google-cloud8
typescript8
graphene-django8
nodejs8
microsoft7
electron7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kbyatnal/NoteStory
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
jasoncode/316Project
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 27 days
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