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Kaushik Mahorker

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CEO and founder at Wildcard (YC W25)
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Kaushik is the CEO and founder of Wildcard, a Y Combinator (W25) company building AI agents to manage software engineering backlogs. A former Engineering Manager at Scale AI and Software Engineer at AWS, he has a strong background in AI, machine learning, and distributed systems, holding an MS from UCLA and a BS from UC Santa Barbara.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
CEO and founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Priorities

Topics Kaushik cares about

AI Agents
His current venture, Wildcard, is building AI coding agents to automate tasks like bug fixes and migrations for engineering teams, integrating with tools like Jira and GitHub.
API Infrastructure
Believes current API infrastructure is built for developers, not AI agents, and is creating a gateway for agents to use APIs through natural language.
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Career

Work history

11-2024
CEO and founder
Wildcard (YC W25)
10-2023 - 5-2024
Engineering Manager
Scale AI
3-2022 - 10-2023
Software Engineer
Scale AI
2-2021 - 2-2022
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
6-2020 - 9-2020
Software Engineer Intern
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Education
Master of Science - MS
UCLA
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
UC Santa Barbara
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