2x founder

Andy Chen

Career Break | Co-Founder, Nira Energy (YC) | ex-Palantir

Co-founder

Nira Energy· Winter 2022 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

in LinkedIn

2026Health and well-being· Career Break

Founder · since 2020

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Career Break

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Health and well-being

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

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Nira Energy

Software to find the best sites for renewables on the electrical grid

Winter 2022

Experience

Career

Career Break
Health and well-being · 2026 – Present
2026
Nira Energy
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CTO · 2021 – 2026
2021
Sidekick
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CEO · 2020 – 2021
2020
Palantir Technologies
Product Manager · Greater New York City Area · 2019 – 2020
2019
Palantir Technologies
Software Engineer · 2018 – 2019
2018
Palantir Technologies
Forward Deployed Engineer · 2015 – 2017
2015
Abacus
Software Engineer Intern · 2014 – 2015
2014
Google
Software Engineering Intern · 2014
2014
Venmo
Software Engineering Intern · 2013 – 2014
2013
TripAdvisor
Software Engineering Intern · 2012
2012
Morgan Stanley
Software Intern · 2010
2010

Bio

I'm the cofounder and CTO at Nira Energy. I recently made the switch to working on climate tech and am loving it. I definitely got lucky meeting my cofounders Chris and Andrew, who are veterans in the renewable energy space with 10+ years of experience. I worked at Palantir as a software engineer for 2 years and a PM for one year. Before that I graduated from Brown with a BS in Computer Science. I live a 3 minute walk from my local surf beach in the Rockaways, NY.