Summary
Yagnya Patel is a San Francisco–based co-founder and software engineer with nine years of experience building AI integrations, search platforms, and knowledge graphs. Currently leading product and engineering efforts at Wildcard (YC W25) to connect tools to LLMs and AI agents, he previously built patient search and knowledge-graph infrastructure at Truveta. His background spans applied NLP, diagnostics tooling, voice integrations, and data-pipeline optimization from internships at Tesla, Amazon Alexa, and HP, grounded in a BS in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara. He’s currently behind agents.json and focuses on making heterogeneous tool ecosystems actionable for intelligent agents—combining research-adjacent curiosity (mice in VR mazes research) with pragmatic production engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara