# Karl Clement > Co-Founder and FDE at Amp | YC S21 Alum Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/karlclement Karl Clement is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Sourcegraph, where he builds AI coding agents for enterprise customers. He works directly with Sourcegraph’s largest customer to deploy modern coding agents powered by Amp, Sourcegraph’s new enterprise-grade agent platform. His focus is on bringing cutting-edge AI assistance into real-world developer workflows at scale. Previously, Karl co-founded Squire AI, where he architected an advanced code review system that leveraged LLMs and custom agents to automatically analyze pull requests on GitHub, detecting security vulnerabilities, performance issues, and potential system reliability risks. His technical achievements include designing distributed agent systems using LangGraph and serverless architecture, while building enterprise-grade infrastructure that met rigorous SOC2 compliance standards. He built the production infrastructure to host these agents using platforms like Microsoft Azure and AWS. Karl’s unique blend of technical and business acumen is demonstrated through his previous success raising $4.4M from leading investors NfX and Emergence Capital for his Y Combinator-backed startup, Codex. He brings hands-on experience in scaling AI products for enterprise customers, managing technical operations, and building secure, production-ready AI systems. His background in both founding AI companies and implementing large-scale LLM-powered systems makes him particularly valuable for organizations looking to build or scale their AI initiatives. At Dignified, Karl worked directly with clients to help them build the best possible products and find product market fit. He has worked with early stage pre-seed startups all the way to Fortune 500 organizations. At CoVenture, Karl was Head of Engineering and worked closely with their portfolio to help them build the best software to support their business. He managed the engineering team to develop at break neck speeds and reach PMF as quickly as possible. Here are some of his specialties: - AI Agents and Autonomous AI - LLM Infrastructure - High Traffic Reliability - Security and Compliance (SOC2, ISO etc) - Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing - REST, GraphQL and Realtime APIs - Rapid building MVPs - Multi language stacks - Micro-service architectures - Scrum and Agile development and planning ## Work Experience ### Co-Founder and Forward Deployed Engineer @ Amp Code Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA ### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Sourcegraph Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Technical Co-Founder and COO @ Squire AI Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA Karl is mainly focused on the development of core algorithms, the software's user interfaces as well as the infrastructure. He helped deploy the AI agent infrastructure to build the fully autonomous AI review. He also manages the team marketing efforts to develop a stronger online presence. While developing web marketing material, he focuses heavily on SEO and social media strategies. He also manages the teams operations such as finances and accounting. This includes managing all expenses, bookkeeping and account management. ### Technical Co-Founder (prev CODEOWNERS, Codex) @ EchoLayer Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States Karl is mainly focused on the development of core algorithms, the software's user interfaces as well as the infrastructure. He also manages the team marketing efforts to develop a stronger online presence. While developing web marketing material, he focuses heavily on SEO and social media strategies. He also manages the teams operations such as finances and accounting. This includes managing all expenses, bookkeeping and account management. ### Technical Co-Founder @ Feathery Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Toronto, Canada Area As Co-Founder of Feathery, I represented the technical engineering responsibilities that included the development of the scraping and caching algorithms to make sure the platform was as fast and as powerful to the customer. ### Co-Founder & Partner @ Dignified Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | Ottawa, Canada Area AS Co-Founder and Partner at Dignified, I helped work with engineering team members to develop custom software products for multiple firms including Meta, Ab-Inbev, Wiki etc. ### VP of Engineering @ CoVenture Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area As VP of Engineering, I was mandated with the task of building and managing our engineering resources including in house team members and remote offshore engineering team members. My other responsibilities include: - developing the architecture for our portfolio companies, - building software MVPs, - technical founder due diligence, - technical hiring due diligence, - technical advisor for our portfolio companies etc. ### Engineering Team Lead & Senior Software Architect @ CoVenture Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area Software Architect and Senior Software Engineer for our portfolio companies. My responsibilities include: - developing the architecture for our portfolio companies, - building software MVPs, - technical founder due diligence, - technical hiring due diligence, - technical advisor for our portfolio companies etc. ### Head of API / Software Developer @ Workshop X Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 As Head of API, I built and maintained the CanvasPop RESTful Photo API. I handled partnerships with various companies such as EA, Bioware, Strava, ArtStation and many more. Part of the product team, I developed multiple applications in PHP, Zend, JS, React.js, HTML5 etc. ### Head of Growth / Co-Founder @ PopKey Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Ottawa, Canada Area As Head of Growth, I mainly focuses on developing key partnerships with large firms as well as help drive more than 1 million downloads of the app within 7 days of our launch. ### Full Stack Software Developer @ CanvasPop Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 As a fullstack software engineer, I was in charge of developing both server components as well as front facing user interfaces. ### Webmaster @ Canada Revenue Agency Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 As a webmaster, I was in charge of developing internal web pages for the Canada Revenue Agency. I worked alongside the internal intranet team to produce documentation for the entire department, ## Education ### Founder Y Combinator ### Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) in Marketing / Finance University of Ottawa ### Master of Science (MSc) (incomplete) in Information Technology University of Quebec ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karlclement - Portfolio: http://karlclement.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/karlclement JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/karlclement/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10