Victor Vannara
Co-Founder at Trope (YC S26)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Vannara is a Co-Founder and CTO with nine years of hands-on experience building AI-driven and distributed systems, currently leading technology at Trope from Vancouver. He previously shipped AI agents and production-grade tooling at Amazon—spanning on-call assistants, customer service agents, RAG pipelines, and ASIN auditing—and helped scale chatbots used by over 400,000 users at a prior startup. Comfortable across the stack, he blends operational excellence from distributed systems work with practical ML/agent engineering to move research into reliable production. An early contributor to OpenAI Codex open source, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a strong academic foundation from UBC in computer science. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatist who prioritizes measurable impact—automating workflows that reduce toil while surfacing interpretable AI behavior.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Khmer, French, English
Github Skills (34)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
voctory/voctory.github.io
Jan 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
ubclaunchpad/Euphony
Oct 2021 - May 2022
Generates playlists based on a list of filters and specifications
Contributions:26 reviews, 130 commits, 45 PRs in 6 months
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