Aayush Shah

Founder — Aayush is the cofounder and co-CTO of Blacksmith. Prior to this, Aayush was a software engineer at Superblocks, and worked as a systems engineer on the replication team at CockroachDB before that. Aayush was awarded the Spartan Award at Cockroach Labs for being critical in bringing home the biggest deal in the company's history. Aayush graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Computer Science, which is where he met his co-founders.