Overview
Sharma is Founder and CEO of Warp[1], an AI-native employee management, payroll and compliance platform[4]. Sharma holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015-2019) and a Master's degree in Systems and Machine Learning from the same institution (2019-2020)[7][8]. Prior to founding Warp in February 2023[5], Sharma worked as an Engineer in Core Machine Learning at Yelp from August 2020 to August 2021[6]. Warp has raised $85M in funding from Battery Ventures, PeakXV, Sapphire, Sound Ventures, Y Combinator, and SV Angel[4].
Profile introduction
Founder and CEO of Warp. Building employee management that runs itself. Payroll, compliance, and benefits have been stuck in the 80s. Legacy vendors like ADP and Paylocity profit from complexity instead of eliminating it. We built Warp to remove it entirely through AI, obsessive engineering, and a philosophy of subtraction. Thousands of companies trust Warp to handle payroll across 50 states, resolve compliance notices before they see them, and automate employee management work that slows them down. Raised $85M from Battery Ventures, PeakXV, Sapphire, Sound Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel…
Career history
- Founder and CEOFeb 2023 to PresentWarp
- Engineer - Core Machine LearningAug 2020 to Aug 2021Yelp
Education
Master's degree, Systems and Machine Learning2019 - 2020Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Media & appearances
- EnginearsApple PodcastsBuilding AI-native Payroll, Compliance and Benefits I Enginears PodcastThis week I’m delighted to introduce Ayush Sharma, Founder and CEO of Warp. Warp are building the next-gen, AI-native employee management platform for fast-growing companies. We are diving into Warp’s journey, why they are tackling the employee m
- Hustle Bustle ShowYouTubeActor life is not Easy ( Full Podcast ) Ayush Sharma @HustleBustleShoww Studies, Passion, HardWork#podcast #promo #actorlife Everyone sees the spotlight, the camera, the fame…but very few see the sleepless nights, the pressure of studies, the endless audi...
In the news
- I'm hiring Applied AI Engineers at Warp. The role: build and deploy Warp Agent. It runs all of people ops for high-growth companies. Our customers are AI-native companies in hypergrowth. They're deploying Warp Agent into their core People function today, and they push us
- A lot of CEOs are posting AI policies lately. Mine is two rules: Don't send pure AI output to your boss. Really don't send it to your boss's boss. If you're just forwarding what Claude said, why can't I prompt it myself? AI is a tool. You shouldn't be the meat proxy.
- We need help building the next era of Warp. We have 20+ open roles across the org. Come join us. https://t.co/tDtiO65Dj5
- Warp 2.0 is live, now we need more people to build it. We are hiring for 20+ roles across eng, design, gtm, marketing and finance Come build people ops for the fastest growing companies https://t.co/tDtiO655tx
- Major announcement tomorrow, Friday, September 25th @ 10 am.
Tune in. https://t.co/hFzdwRvHFD
- I'm hiring a GTM Engineer for Revenue Systems at Warp. The role: own the systems and infra our revenue motion runs on. Salesforce, Snowflake, Clay, Outreach, Gong. You write the SQL, build the data models and automations, and decide what the numbers actually mean. We're going
- we're hiring for 20+ roles across eng, design, gtm, marketing, and finance. come build with us what comes after Workday, with AI running all people operations at high-growth companies https://t.co/tDtiO655tx
- Met Gabriella 9 years ago at MIT. I was a broke college student with nothing to my name. She was gorgeous, kind, and one of the smartest people i'd ever met.
We clicked instantly. Everything since, we built together. https://t.co/INvsQ0Udcg
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