Ai Daniil Bekirov is Founder and CEO of Sparkles, a Y Combinator W26 backed developer tools platform that enables non-technical team members to create pull requests and modify code without knowing Git. Sparkles is backed by Y Combinator and angel investors from xAI, a16z, OpenAI, Cloudflare, and General Catalyst.

Daniil dropped out of UCL at age 20 to start Sparkles and previously worked as a Software Engineer at Structured AI (YC F25). He also served as a Software Engineering Intern at Iterate and is a Cursor Ambassador.

Daniil is a Ukrainian founder (20 years old) currently based in San Francisco. He specializes in Java and Python and has participated in multiple hackathons, including winning recognition at various developer competitions.

Sparkles enables anyone with a company email to log in and create pull requests by simply describing changes in plain English, while technical team members handle the initial GitHub setup and repository configuration. The platform democratizes code changes across marketing, operations, and other non-engineering teams.

Sparkles was founded in 2025 and is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch, operating with a lean team of 1 from San Francisco. The company is building what they describe as vibecoding infrastructure to transform how cross-functional teams interact with codebases.