Pulkit Gupta is Co-Founder and CTO of Tsenta (YC S26), an AI-powered job application automation platform that matches candidates with roles and applies on their behalf at scale.

A sophomore Computer Science and AI student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Pulkit previously held engineering roles at VIAVI Solutions, GrapheneAI (MLOps), and Paytm (SWE).

Pulkit co-built Tsenta out of his own frustration as an international student, having personally applied to thousands of jobs and spending hours daily on repetitive data entry across broken application forms.

Tsenta was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2026 cohort and secured $500K in seed funding; the team also won two categories at the Georgia Tech Hackathon, which earned them their YC referral.

Since launching, Tsenta has grown from 1,100 to nearly 8,000 users in just two months, with its AI agent capable of completing 40+ job applications in minutes across platforms like Workday, Greenhouse, and Lever.