# Tarun Vedula

> Tarun Vedula is the San Francisco-based CEO and co-founder of Zatanna, a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company that turns existing software workflows into callable APIs. Working with co-founder Alex Blackwell, he is building integration infrastructure and the reverse-engineering tool Kampala. His public updates describe a shift from an initial application toward the software connections customers needed, alongside hands-on product demonstrations and a preference for fast communication and technical understanding.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Zatanna
- **Organizations:** Zatanna
- **Education:** University of Wisconsin-Madison
- **Known for:** Co-founded Zatanna, a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company., Helped launch Kampala, a reverse-engineering tool for existing software workflows.

## Career timeline

- **2025** — Co-founded Zatanna; the company lists 2025 as its founding year.
- **2026** — Zatanna participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 batch.
- **2026-04** — Announced Kampala’s public release and demonstrated its mobile workflow capabilities.
- **2026-07** — Publicly recruited Zatanna’s first engineer.
- **2026-09** — Described Zatanna as an integration factory and reflected on declining a job offer roughly a year earlier.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Zatanna, a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company.
- Helped launch Kampala, a reverse-engineering tool for existing software workflows.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Reflected on turning down a job offer to keep building Zatanna.
- **2026-09** — Described the company as an integration factory and reported processing over one million requests per hour across its infrastructure; this is a founder-reported figure.
- **2026-07** — Announced recruitment for the company’s first engineer.

## Links

- Website: https://www.zatanna.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarunvedula/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/TarunVedula

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Last updated: 2026-10-08