Aamir Poonawalla

Founder | Building in AI | Ex-Instacart (10 yrs) | YC | Engineering Leader

Co-founder

Understudy Labs· Summer 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

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2026Co-founder· Orchestra (YC S26)

Founder · since 2026

Company

Orchestra (YC S26)

Role

Co-Founder & CTO

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Understudy Labs

Effortlessly move to open weight models

Summer 2026

Experience

Career

Orchestra (YC S26)
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CTO · 2026 – Present
2026
Instacart
Senior Software Development Manager · 2022 – 2026
2022
Instacart
Engineering Manager · 2020 – 2022
2020
Instacart
Technical Lead · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020
2020
Instacart
Technical Lead · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2019
2018
Instacart
Senior Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016 – 2018
2016
URX (acq. by Pinterest)
Senior Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015 – 2016
2015
Microsoft
Software Developer at Yammer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2013 – 2014
2013
Microsoft
Software Engineer at Skype · 2012 – 2013
2012
Skype ( Acquired by Microsoft)
Software Developer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2011
2011
Qik ( Acquired by Skype )
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2010 – 2011
2010

Bio

Founder at Understudy Labs (YC S26). 9 years at Instacart. Built the ads serving and ML infrastructure, auction platform, and experimentation framework. 2nd time YC Founder. MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.