Shubham Palriwala is Co-Founder and CEO of Agnost AI (YC S26), a product analytics platform helping teams build self-improving conversational AI agents. Based in San Francisco, he brings five years of experience building secure, privacy-conscious systems for startups and open-source projects.

Shubham earned a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science with a specialization in Information Security from Vellore Institute of Technology (2019-2023). He went on to become the youngest engineer on Cisco's analytics team and was the first hire at Formbricks, an open-source Typeform alternative.

Shubham is a certified Ethical Hacker (v11) who uniquely blends offensive-security instincts with practical privacy engineering. He has contributed code to Bitcoin and open-source projects across OWASP, the Linux Foundation, and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Before Agnost AI, Shubham honed his entrepreneurial instincts through Entrepreneurs First (S25 batch) and held engineering roles at Onboarding.club and Formbricks, as well as a Cisco internship where he implemented FreeRADIUS auth support and proto/Kafka workflows. His open-source program credits include GSoC at OWASP Juice Shop and LFX at Kyverno.

Agnost AI raised a $250K pre-seed round from Entrepreneurs First and is now backed by Y Combinator (S26). A key case study with Exa reported that time from user-signal to shipped fix dropped from 14 hours to zero using the Agnost platform.