# Joshua France

> Product Engineer at Y Combinator

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joshuafrance

## Work Experience
### Product Engineer @ Y Combinator
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Investment/Investment Operations team

### Growth @ Yotta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
https://www.withyotta.com/

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Algorithms to infer partner merchandizing (planogram) in Just Walk Out Stores with third-party retailers

### Summer Analyst (Sales & Trading) @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Research Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Developed ML powered software backend in Python for a camera + onboard Raspberry Pi that performed sentiment analysis.

### Private Equity Analyst Intern @ Tobacco Road Partners
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Developed investment theses and preformed business model evaluation on selected industries.

Targeted specific industries and synthesized preliminary analysis to develop lead lists for future contact.

Performed preliminary due diligence and data analysis on potential acquisition targets.


## Education
### Electrical and Computer Engineering in Computer Science, Math (Minor), Finance (Minor)
Duke University

### The American School in Japan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshua-robert-france
- Website: https://16francej.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-23