2x founder

Varun Wadhwa

CTO @ Traceforce (YC S26)

Co-founder

Traceforce· Summer 2026 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2025Co-founder· Traceforce

Founder · since 2016

Company

Traceforce

Role

Co-founder & CTO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Traceforce

Securing AI native apps directly on devices

Summer 2026

Experience

Career

Traceforce
Co-founder
Co-founder & CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
LinkedIn
Senior Software Engineer · Mountain View, California, United States · 2025
2025
Clumio
Staff Software Engineer · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2021 – 2025
2021
Microsoft
Software Engineer · Redmond, Washington · 2020 – 2021
2020
VIZIO
Software Engineering Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019
2019
Starbutter AI
Software Engineering Intern · Berkeley, California · 2019
2019
Digital Asset
Software Engineering Intern · 2018
2018
SelfCheck
Co-founder
Co-Founder · 2016 – 2017
2016

Bio

Co-founder & CTO at TraceForce. Previously Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, leading high-performance database systems for RAG. Before that, Staff Software Engineer at Clumio, leading distributed data infrastructure and backup. Earlier built distributed payments systems at Microsoft. BS in EECS, UC Berkeley.