Prashant Patel
Co-founder / CTO @ OpenRelay
Experience
Career
2026OpenRelay (YC S26)
FounderFounder / CTO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2026 – Present
2025Lightning AI
Staff Software Engineer · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2025 – 2026
2024Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Senior Software Development Engineer · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2024 – 2026
2021Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Development Engineer II · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2021 – 2024
2020IBM
Advisory Software Engineer · San Jose, California, United States · 2020
2018IBM
Staff Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2020
2018IBM
Software Engineer Intern · San Jose, California, United States · 2018
2018New York University
Graduate Teaching Assistant · New York, United States · 2018
2017New York University
Graduate Teaching Assistant · New York, United States · 2017 – 2018
2017IBM
Software Engineer Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017
2017New York University
Graduate Teaching Assistant · New York, United States · 2017
2016Alexapath
Software Developer (NYU Fellowship Intern) · Brooklyn, NY · 2016 – 2017
2014Studentdesk.in
Android app developer · Ahmedabad · 2014 – 2016
Bio
Founder at OpenRelay (YC S26). Previously Staff Engineer at Voltagepark building managed Inference and Orechestration software for 10,000+ GPU clusters and serverless compute that scaled to 10M+ executions/month. Founding member of Amazon Bedrock at AWS, led Custom Model Import from 0 to multi-million ARR and scaled inference infrastructure for models up to trillions of parameters. MS CS from NYU.