# Shubham Palriwala

> Shubham Palriwala is the co-founder and CEO of Agnost AI (YC S26), a startup building the self-improving layer for AI agents in production. A backend engineer by trade, he was the youngest engineer on Cisco's analytics team and the first hire at open-source survey company Formbricks before teaming up with childhood friend Parth Ajmera to read production AI conversations and automatically ship fixes back to the agents that generate them.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Agnost AI (YC S26)
- **Organizations:** Agnost AI, Entrepreneurs First, Formbricks, Cisco, Infisical, Onboarding.club
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** B.Tech, Computer Science with Specialization in Information Security, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
- **Known for:** Co-founder and CEO of Agnost AI, accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, Youngest engineer on Cisco's analytics team, First hire (Engineer #1) at Formbricks, an open-source survey platform with 12k+ GitHub stars

## Career timeline

- **2021** — Participated in Summer of Bitcoin and Linux Foundation X (LFX) with CNCF/Kyverno
- **2022** — Google Summer of Code with OWASP Juice Shop; Google Season of Docs with OpenMined; GitHub Extern at Dhiway
- **2022** — Youngest engineer on Cisco's analytics team; worked with Cisco Spaces on reactive programming and performance engineering; sole-author provisional patent on eBPF and WPA3
- **2023** — Graduated from VIT; became Engineer #1 (first hire) at Formbricks, the open-source survey platform
- **2024** — Backend/security engineering roles including Infisical; open-source contributions across security and privacy projects
- **2025** — Co-founded Agnost AI with Parth Ajmera; joined Entrepreneurs First (S25) and raised $250k
- **2026** — Agnost AI joins Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch; product processes 1M+ AI events daily

## Achievements

- Co-founder and CEO of Agnost AI, accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch
- Youngest engineer on Cisco's analytics team
- First hire (Engineer #1) at Formbricks, an open-source survey platform with 12k+ GitHub stars
- Sole-author provisional patent on eBPF and WPA3 filed with Cisco in US and Indian offices
- Google Summer of Code alumnus (OWASP Juice Shop, 2022)
- Google Season of Docs alumnus (OpenMined, 2022)
- Linux Foundation X (LFX) alumnus with CNCF/Kyverno (2021)
- Summer of Bitcoin participant (2021)
- Certified Ethical Hacker (v11)
- Raised $250k via Entrepreneurs First

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Leading Agnost AI through the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch; the product processes over 1 million AI events per day.
- **2025** — Co-founded Agnost AI, went through Entrepreneurs First (S25), and raised $250k.

## Links

- Website: https://agnost.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubhampalriwala/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ShubhamInTech
- GitHub: https://github.com/ShubhamPalriwala
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BXrlbFlAQs

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Last updated: 2026-07-31