Parth Chopra
Co-Founder And CTO at Candle (YC F24)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParth Chopra is a product-minded engineering leader and co-founder currently building Encore (YC F24) as CTO, focused on discovery-driven resale shopping and agentic consumer AI. With eight years of experience across startups and high-scale platforms—Asana, X/Twitter, Federato—he blends full-stack systems engineering, ML-driven search, and revenue-facing ad infrastructure. He has a Berkeley EECS background and a track record shipping features that meaningfully moved metrics (e.g., Replies ads adoption and an Android experiment that boosted installs per click). Parth’s work spans backend data pipelines, Scala-based services, ETL and BigQuery, and practical ML integrations that improved search precision and clinical entity extraction. Equally comfortable leading small teams or diving into low-latency systems, he pairs founder-level product instincts with hands-on implementation. Based in San Francisco, he’s motivated by circular-economy commerce and building agentic AI experiences for consumers.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), EECS, Bachelor of Science (BS), EECS at University of California, BerkeleyCandle | Y Combinator, Candle | Y Combinator at Y CombinatorHIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at International Baccalaureate
Hindi, English, French, Punjabi
Github Skills (40)
face-detection10
python10
facial-recognition10
face-recognition10
machine-learning9
command-line9
frontend8
language-model8
react8
cryptography8
vue8
cryptocurrency8
javascript8
react-native7
svelte7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
parthematics/covid-19-hub
May 2020 - May 2020
An accessible voice application providing relevant information on COVID-19, including current statistics, tweets, news articles, and even advice on symptoms.
Contributions:32 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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parthematics/parthematics.github.io
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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