About

Ayush Pateria is a passionate entrepreneur and co-founder of Snazzy, a startup that is revolutionizing the teeth straightening industry. He is an engineer by qualification and has always been driven by the desire to solve important problems. Ayush is a curious learner who is always looking to add value to the people around him. He taught himself coding in his high school days and developed an app that got over a million downloads in the play store. Ayush majored in computer science from IIT Hyderabad and had a brief stint in Silicon Valley before founding Snazzy. As the CEO, he is leading the company to build the future of teeth straightening. Snazzy is part of the Y Combinator W21 batch, and Ayush is working hard to make it a success. Before Snazzy, Ayush worked at Mercari as an SRE, where he was responsible for managing and scaling the infrastructure that handles millions of users daily. He worked on Kubernetes infra to manage microservices and built tooling for automation. Ayush also worked as a software engineering intern at Microsoft, where he worked on improving internal monitoring tools as part of the Azure Networking team. Ayush's education history includes a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science from IIT Hyderabad, where he graduated in 2019. He also attended St. Joseph's Convent School, where he completed his schooling. Ayush's tech stack includes SRE, infra, Kubernetes, Microservices, and Azure. He has relevant experience of 4.70 years, and his passion for entrepreneurship and problem-solving is evident in all his work.