Rahul Thayil is Co-Founder and CTO at Torus (YC S26), an agentic engineering intelligence platform for capital project firms, backed by Y Combinator.

Rahul brings a decade of experience building frontier AI and autonomous systems, including founding Orion, an AI threat intelligence and response platform that raised $3.5M and served Fortune 500 clients.

With deep expertise in recursive machine learning, enterprise security, and defense systems, Rahul has consistently applied AI to solve high-stakes, real-world infrastructure challenges.

Prior to Torus, Rahul served as a Senior Analyst at Benenson Strategy Group, supported UN environment projects, and built Orion through Techstars before transitioning to agentic engineering.

Torus is already working with multiple Fortune 500 companies and major EPCs, enabling engineering firms to build critical infrastructure including data centers and energy installations up to 10x faster.