Saharsh Agrawal
Co-Founder & CEO at Surface Labs (YC S23)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSaharsh Agrawal is a founder-engineer and CEO based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building secure, full-stack systems and product-led startups. He co-founded Surface Labs (YC S23) to help B2B marketing teams build intelligent website funnels that convert visitors into pipeline, drawing on hands-on experience shipping privacy-first collaboration features at Skiff and confidential-computing platforms at Opaque Systems. His background spans applied research at Berkeley RISE Lab and real-world security engineering at Microsoft and Apple, where he built hardware fuzzing pipelines and cross-org tooling. Comfortable bridging research, product, and engineering, he has shipped end-to-end proofs-of-concept for Fortune 500s and university labs alike. He holds BS and MS degrees in EECS from UC Berkeley, blending rigorous academic training with startup execution. A less obvious thread through his career is a focus on safety and privacy—from pacemaker-safe update research to confidential computing—informing how he designs reliable, secure customer-facing products.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyIB Diploma, IB Diploma at King High School
Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
enclave8
security7
machine-learning6
spark6
privacy5
analytics5
spark-sql5
data-analytics4
tezos3
blockchain3
peer-to-peer2
communications2
reference-implementation1
inference1
xgboost1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
trysurface/mintlify-docs
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 2 months
trysurface/scripts
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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