Quentin Lauro is a founder-engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience building product-focused software and research tools. As Co-Founder and CEO of Inspector (YC F25) he combines startup leadership with product engineering chops developed during a stint at Character.AI and multiple HCI and NSF-backed research projects at CMU and UC Berkeley. He has led large student engineering efforts—running PittCSC’s open-source projects and organizing the university’s largest hackathon with viral outreach that generated 80M+ Instagram views—demonstrating uncommon experience shipping community-driven initiatives. Quentin’s work spans applied research (RAG debugging and generative-AI integration for small businesses) to pragmatic product delivery, and he still writes code himself despite running a company. His background suggests an operator who bridges academic research, developer tooling, and growth-oriented product strategy.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
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Quentin Lauro - Co-Founder And CEO at Inspector (YC F25)