Summary
Rahul Sonwalkar is a product-focused engineer and founder/CEO based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building developer-facing products and teams. He leads Julius AI while hiring across frontend, fullstack, backend and growth marketing, and couples that operator role with early-stage investing in AI startups including Perplexity AI and multiple YC companies. As co-founder of Waterview he scaled a developer community to 17,000, demonstrating a knack for product-led growth and developer engagement. His background includes engineering stints at Uber and an internship at Facebook, blending large-company rigor with startup agility. A UT Dallas CS graduate who writes about product and engineering at rahul.ru, he brings technical depth plus an investor’s eye for promising AI tooling.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Hindi, Marathi, English