Tanooj Luthra
Founder • Ex-(Brex, YC, Coinbase) • Angel Investor
New York, New York
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2024
Co-Founder and CTO
2024
Enterprise AI w/ Aziz Pabani
2019
Head of Engineering for Startups + Banking
2021
Led the engineering org in charge of building products for our Startup customers, primarily our Business Banking Accounts fka. Brex Cash
Senior Engineering Manager, Foundation Platform + Observability
2020 - 2021
Leading Foundation Platform + Observability teams, in charge of accelerating our internal development speed as well as monitoring the health of our systems.
Engineering Manager, Brex Cash
2019 - 2020
Started and led engineering for the team tasked with building Brex Cash. Grew the team from 1 to ~15, through a beta launch, GA, working with everybody needed to start processing our first transactions.
2021
Venture Partner
2021
2015
Board Member and CTO
2015
Khushi Baby's mission is to motivate and monitor the health care of mothers and children to the last mile. That's why we built an inexpensive digital necklace that makes medical history wearable.
2018 - 2023
Co-Founder & CTO
2018 - 2023
YC W'19. Acquired by Brex. Building digital payments infrastructure
2017 - 2018
Senior Crypto Engineer
2017 - 2018
On the crypto payments team, which was in charge of the systems that handled every cryptocurrency transaction in and out of Coinbase. Led the efforts to add Bitcoin Cash support and support crypto protocol upgrades to Bitcoin (e.g. SegWit). Worked on scaling the crypto architecture to handle global peak transaction volumes.
2014 - 2017
Staff Software Engineer
2014 - 2017
Integrated the Streem product into Box's architecture. Launched as Box Drive (https://www.box.com/drive), Box's now flagship desktop product with 1M+ users.
2013 - 2014
Co-Founder and CTO
2013 - 2014
YC S12. Acquired by Box and rebranded as Box Drive in June 2014. Started Streem to build a media-focused cloud storage product, allowing users to stream unlimited data without traditional desktop sync products. Accepted into Y Combinator (Summer 2012), and raised $875,000 in seed funding from VCs and angel investors. Launched a cross-platform cloud storage product, growing to 60,000 users in just a few weeks. Built a native kernel-mode driver for desktops that intercepted all filesystem calls allowing us to stream the data bits directly from Streem's servers to the OS. Optimized video access by building an on-demand adaptive bitrate video transcoding system with backward compatibility to HLS.
2012 - 2012
Software Engineer
2012 - 2012
Ported cocos2d-x game framework in C++ to Windows Phone. Contributed framework back to open source community (https://docs.cocos2d-x.org/cocos2d-x/en/installation/Windows-Phone.html).
2011 - 2011
Software Engineer
2011 - 2011
Developed photo sharing and management iPhone application