Summary
Troy Astorino is a co-founder and CTO with 14 years of experience building applied intelligence to accelerate human health through PicnicAI. Trained in physics and aerospace engineering at MIT, he blends rigorous scientific reasoning with hands-on software engineering across front-end, back-end, and simulation-driven systems. His early career in guidance, navigation, and control at SpaceX and satellite ground-software at Lockheed Martin reflects a strong background in mission-critical, high-performance systems. Troy has deep experience prototyping and validating algorithms in robotics and sensing contexts, having led experimental work on autonomous localization and chemical plume modeling. He is comfortable shipping full-stack solutions that integrate HPC, simulation, and data-processing pipelines, and brings an operator’s eye to production reliability and analysis. Based in San Francisco, he pairs startup leadership with technical depth and a knack for turning complex scientific problems into deployable products.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
BS, Physics, Aerospace Engineering, BS, Physics, Aerospace Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sage Hill School
English, French, Spanish