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Tanooj Luthra

Founder • Ex-(Brex, YC, Coinbase) • Angel Investor

New York, New York

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    $0.00
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    $0.00

Education

Work Experience

  • 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.

  • Venture Partner

    2021

  • 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