Overview
Adam Suskin is CEO and Founder of Crouton [1], a company accepted to Y Combinator's F24 cohort [4]. Suskin describes Crouton as "the source of truth for who's working on what" [2], addressing staffing coordination challenges in forward-deployed work environments [2]. Prior to founding Crouton, Suskin worked as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies from March 2019 to March 2022 [6], where Suskin tech-led one of the company's largest contracts [2]. Suskin also served as Engineering Lead at Candid Health from March 2022 to December 2023 [5]. Suskin holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology [7].
Profile introduction
I run Crouton (YC F24). We're the source of truth for who's working on what. Ex-Palantir. I tech-led one of the largest contracts in the company's history. Forward-deployed is difficult because the tools and systems we use today were never designed for it. We were constantly trying to answer the same questions: Who's on which deployment? Are they the right person for it? And can we staff the next one? Every company that puts its people on client work have some version of this. The staffing plan lives in a spreadsheet someone updates on Fridays. Rippling knows who works there, NetSuite knows…
Career history
- CEO, FounderDec 2025 to presentCrouton
- F24 FounderAug 2024 to Dec 2024Y Combinator
- Engineering LeadMar 2022 to Dec 2023Candid Health
- Forward Deployed EngineerMar 2019 to Mar 2022Palantir Technologies
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer ScienceGeorgia Institute of Technology
- The Westminster Schools
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