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Engines

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Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Engines is an AI platform engineer that containerizes codebases, debugs Terraform code, and helps you get complex monorepos setup.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Parasale

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Josh Valdez

Founder

Co-founder and CEO of Engines. Prior to Engines, he was an engineering manager and early engineer at Gem (S17). Before Gem he was an infrastructure engineer at Uber on the ML Platform and Reliability teams. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Jet Zhou

Founder

Jet is the co-founder and CTO of Engines. He was the 2nd engineer at Gem (S17) responsible building and scaling all aspects of the product. Prior to Gem, he was an early engineer at ClassDojo (IK12) and worked on the Search Engine Marketing team at Amazon. He holds a BS and a MEng in Computer Science from MIT.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2023 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedNot documented
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The source reports an inactive or acquired company; current product identity needs review.

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