Yousef Helal

Co-Founder @ Gradon (YC F26) | AI for AEC Firms

Co-founder

Vendo· Summer 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @yousefhll

2026Co-founder· Gradon (YC F26)

Founder · since 2026

Company

Gradon (YC F26)

Role

Co-Founder

current

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

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Vendo

Let your users build their own features on top of your product

Summer 2026

Experience

Career

Gradon (YC F26)
Co-founder
Co-Founder · 2026 – Present
2026
Apple
Software Engineering Intern (FV CAD) · Cupertino, California, United States · 2025
2025
University of California, Berkeley
Teaching Assistant · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
Berkeley RISE Lab
Undergraduate Researcher · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
AMD
System Engineering Intern · San Jose, California, United States · 2023
2023
Cloudera
Software Engineer Intern · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2022
2022
Bay Area Community Resources (BACR)
Software Engineer Intern · 2020 – 2021
2020
De Anza College
Computer Science Teaching Assistant · Cupertino, California, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020

Bio

Co-Founder at Vendo (YC S26). I graduated high school at 15, then went and got a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley and an MS in EE from Stanford I previously designed software and hardware at Apple (FPGA infrastructure) and AMD (Microblaze V), and then founded a startup building in-store AI shopping assistants for retailers. Before that, my teachings methods as a TA at Berkeley won awards and got published in a paper.