2x founder

Ali Sareini

Washing Cars @ Nautilus | we’re hiring!

Co-founder

Nautilus· Summer 2025 San Francisco Bay Area

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2024Co-founder· Nautilus (YC S25)

Founder · since 2021

Company

Nautilus (YC S25)

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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Nautilus

AI platform to grow and to optimize car washes

Summer 2025

Experience

Career

Nautilus (YC S25)
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CTO · 2024 – Present
2024
SABRES
Co-founder
Co-Founder & President · Norfolk, Virginia, United States · 2021 – 2025
2021
Fidelity Investments
Full-Stack Software Engineer · Durham, North Carolina, United States · 2023
2023
Networked Public Space
Full Stack Engineer · Charlottesville, Virginia, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
University of Virginia
C.S. Specialist, UVA's Computational Systems Biology Lab · 2021 – 2022
2021
Old Dominion University
Computer Science Intern · Norfolk, Virginia, United States · 2019 – 2020
2019
AUTOBELL Car Wash
Team Member · Chesapeake, Virginia, United States · 2019 – 2020
2019
Chesapeake for Palmer Smith
Campaign Manager & Treasurer · Chesapeake, Virginia, United States · 2019 – 2020
2019

Bio

Ali Sareini is the co-founder and CTO at Nautilus. He holds a B.S. in CS from the University of Virginia and left Dartmouth’s MEM program to build Nautilus full-time. Previously, he built critical money-movement systems at Fidelity Investments. Ali led SABRES, a private consulting firm, and serves on the board of a Missouri-based public-safety company. He got his start at Autobell Car Wash in high school — now he builds the software the industry runs on.