Vivek Yanamadula is Co-Founder and CTO at Archer (YC P26), a conversational AI platform that turns any event into an instant payout or physical reward, enabling companies to automate referral programs, affiliate payouts, creator rewards, and commissions using plain English.

Vivek earned a B.A. and M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and honed his engineering skills as a software engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Vivek brings a rare blend of full-stack engineering depth and distributed systems expertise, applying his AWS-scale infrastructure experience to build AI agents that move money and physical rewards globally via stablecoin and card rails.

At Archer, Vivek co-founded the company alongside Benjamin Nguyen and architected the core agentic commerce platform, which deploys AI agents capable of tracking behaviors and orchestrating payments and physical rewards automatically with no dashboards or manual ops.

Archer was accepted into Y Combinator's P26 batch, validating its vision of agentic commerce where software can not only communicate with people but physically reward and engage them in the real world.