Noa Flaherty is a CTO and founder with eight years of engineering and leadership experience building data-driven products and scaling early-stage teams. She founded Vellum after a multi-role tenure at Dover where she progressed from the third engineer to managing and technically leading cross-functional teams focused on recruiting orchestration. Previously at DataRobot she led teams delivering MLOps and a COVID-19 predictive model adopted by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, demonstrating a blend of ML productization and operational rigor. Her background at Onshape shows strong full-stack and data engineering chops—designing ETL pipelines, building KPI dashboards, and launching company-wide training and community programs. Based in Beverly, MA, she pairs startup grit with enterprise-grade process and has a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Management from MIT plus recent YC founder program experience. A practical builder and operator, she repeatedly turns early technical foundations into scalable systems that support rapid team growth.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering and Management (Double Major), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering and Management (Double Major) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 3 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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