Sebastian Völkl
Co-Founder CEO at Dalus (YC W25)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Völkl is a founder and operator with 12 years of experience building hardware and software startups, now leading Dalus as Co-Founder and CEO to bring model-based systems engineering to mission-critical industries like aerospace and defense. He has repeatedly launched and scaled ventures—from an open-source, Raspberry Pi–based brain-computer-interface hardware startup to campus and city-level talent marketplaces that were successfully acquired or adopted. Comfortable switching between product, recruiting, and operations, he has worked in high-growth talent ecosystems including YC, Entrepreneur First, On Deck, and Protocol Labs. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on technical curiosity with go-to-market grit, often driving technical products while managing recruiting and operational scaling. An autodidact by training, he favors pragmatic, open approaches (evident from hackerBCI’s open hardware) and thrives on turning complex systems problems into usable tools.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorAutodidact
English, German
Github Skills (30)
javascript9
webrtc9
slack9
chat9
cockpit8
collaboration8
websocket-client8
child-process8
linux8
communications8
expressjs8
meteor7
nodejs7
gzip7
websocket7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ICarryTheDustOfAJourney/Autosave-Render
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 38 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ICarryTheDustOfAJourney/net-honeypot
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 10 pushes in 2 days
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