Tanya Verma

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founder of innovative AI privacy solutions.
  • Expertise in applied cryptography and machine learning.
  • Strong background in research and development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and cryptography-focused technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Applied CryptographyMachine Learning

Other Skills

Research and Development (R&D)Systems EngineeringGoRust (Programming Language)C (Programming Language)Functional ProgrammingLinux

About

Co-founder & CEO at Tinfoil. Interested in AI, privacy preserving protocols and applied cryptography. Recently, I've been particularly interested in making AI more distributed and private.

Experience

Tinfoil

Co-Founder

May 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Verifiably Private AI: https://tinfoil.sh
Applied CryptographyMachine LearningResearch and Development (R&D)

Cloudflare, inc.

2 roles

Research Engineer

Aug 2020Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Cryptography Engineering Intern

May 2019Aug 2019 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Nvidia

Systems Software Engineering Intern

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Santa Clara, CA

  • Camera Systems Software - USB drivers for Android on Tegra

University of illinois at urbana-champaign, cubesat program

Lead Communications Software Developer

Sep 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

  • Error correcting and communications protocol software

Mitra research group

Undergraduate Research Assistant

May 2017Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

  • Setting up ROS on the Jetson TK1, installing dependencies to interface with peripherals (i.e. LIDAR, 3D camera, IMU, motor controller), and ensuring basic functionality of two autonomous cars (i.e. keyboard/telekey control and waypoint tracking).
  • Assembling a custom PCB that mounts a motor controller, and adjusting chassis design.
  • Implementing a ROS application for path planning and to improve the autonomous operation of an individual car overall.
  • Working on a distributed programming platform, to help make the complied code from the high-level language executable on the F1/10 platform.

University of illinois, college of engineering

Engineering Tour Guide

May 2017Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

National center for supercomputing applications

Undergraduate Intern

Dec 2016Mar 2017 · 3 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

  • Deployed Jupyter notebooks in Docker containers and hosted them on JupyterHub for use in a Geography class

Education

Y Combinator

X25

Apr 2025Jun 2025

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2016Jan 2020

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