# Adhityaa Chandrasekar

> Adhityaa Chandrasekar is the founder and CEO of Subtrace (YC W25), a zero-code network tracer that acts like an inspect-element button for backend infrastructure. Using eBPF, Subtrace surfaces every HTTP request a process sends and receives in real time, with no root privileges or code changes. Before Subtrace, Adhityaa was a software engineer at Google working on Kubernetes internals and GKE infrastructure monitoring, and he built Commento, a popular open-source, privacy-first comments platform. He studied at IIT Madras and the University of Waterloo, and co-founded Subtrace with Sachin Sridhar, a friend of more than a decade.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Subtrace (YC W25)
- **Organizations:** Subtrace, Google (former), Commento, coala
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** Undergraduate, IIT Madras, University of Waterloo
- **Known for:** Founder & CEO of Subtrace, a YC W25 developer-tools startup, Built Subtrace, a zero-code eBPF-based network tracer with 2.8k+ GitHub stars, Created Commento, a popular open-source comments platform with 3.8k+ GitHub stars

## Career timeline

- **2019-2021** — Published engineering essays on Go worker pools, SQL, OpenPGP, double-entry accounting and Makefiles at adtac.in
- **prior** — Built Commento, an open-source, privacy-focused comments platform (3.8k+ GitHub stars)
- **prior** — Software engineer at Google working on Kubernetes internals and GKE infrastructure monitoring
- **2024** — Founded Subtrace with Sachin Sridhar
- **2025** — Subtrace joins Y Combinator's Winter 2025 (W25) batch; raises seed funding

## Achievements

- Founder & CEO of Subtrace, a YC W25 developer-tools startup
- Built Subtrace, a zero-code eBPF-based network tracer with 2.8k+ GitHub stars
- Created Commento, a popular open-source comments platform with 3.8k+ GitHub stars
- Software engineer at Google on Kubernetes internals and GKE infrastructure monitoring
- Studied at IIT Madras and the University of Waterloo

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Subtrace raised seed funding as part of Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch.
- **2025-01** — Subtrace launched publicly as a zero-code network tracer built on eBPF.

## Links

- Website: https://adtac.in
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adtac
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/adtac_
- GitHub: https://github.com/adtac

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Last updated: 2026-08-03