# Kaushik Mahorker

> Kaushik Mahorker is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Wildcard, a Y Combinator Winter 2025 company focused on AI shopping and ecommerce operations. He previously led Scale AI’s GenAI Allocation team and worked on AWS Elastic File System. His computer-science education spans UCSB and UCLA; his public work includes undergraduate virtual-reality research and explanatory essays on machine learning.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Wildcard
- **Organizations:** Wildcard, Scale AI, Amazon Web Services
- **Education:** B.S. in Computer Science; Distinction in the Major, Research Track, University of California, Santa Barbara, M.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
- **Known for:** UCSB Distinction in the Major, Research Track, 2019., Co-founded a company in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch., Reports building an ecommerce enrichment engine at Scale AI covering 400,000 SKUs and 2.4 million attributes; another job listing reports 2.8 million attributes.

## Career timeline

- **2019** — Presented undergraduate VR research at UCSB and received research-track Distinction in the Major.
- **2020** — Published explanations of EWISE and NoScope on Medium.
- **—** — Worked as an engineer on AWS Elastic File System.
- **—** — Served as engineering manager at Scale AI, leading the GenAI Allocation team.
- **2025** — Co-founded Wildcard with Yagnya Patel; company joined YC W25 and publicly launched API tooling in February.
- **2025-11** — Relaunched Wildcard around agentic commerce, according to his July 2026 account.
- **2026-07** — Discussed Wildcard’s ecommerce platform and forthcoming public rollout.

## Achievements

- UCSB Distinction in the Major, Research Track, 2019.
- Co-founded a company in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch.
- Reports building an ecommerce enrichment engine at Scale AI covering 400,000 SKUs and 2.4 million attributes; another job listing reports 2.8 million attributes.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Said Wildcard was working with more than 20 brands and preparing a broader public rollout; clarified that agents.json was no longer being actively maintained by the company.
- **2026-04** — Published a Walmart Sparky catalog and visibility operating guide.
- **2026-03** — Published an agentic-commerce operating framework and an analysis of the 9operators discussion.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaushikmahorker
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/kaushikm_
- GitHub: https://github.com/kmahorker
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaushikm_/

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Last updated: 2026-10-11