# Omkar Waingankar

> Agents @ ElevenLabs | Berkeley EECS

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/omkarwaingankar

I’m currently a software engineer at ElevenLabs. Our team is building the best voice AI agent platform for startups and enterprises. Previously, I was a founding engineer at Wayfaster (voice AI) and a senior software engineer on the Platform Team at Nylas (email infra). Prior to that, I worked under Bhaskar Ghosh at 8VC (seed/series A investments).

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ ElevenLabs
Jan 2025 – Present
Building enterprise-grade conversational AI

### Founding Engineer @ Wayfaster
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Acquired by LiveKit. Building voice AI agents to conduct first round screens at scale. Wearing many hats (engineering, product, CS).

### Senior Software Engineer @ Nylas
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
Accelerating customer migrations to APIv3 and unlocking huge gross margin wins

### Software Engineer II @ Nylas
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
Joined the Platform Team and owned highly reliable messages, drafts, threads, and folder endpoints for multiple email providers (IMAP, Google, Microsoft, EWS). Led architecture and implementation of APIv3: a faster, cheaper, more reliable platform critical to scale billions of email transactions annually.

### Software Engineer @ Nylas
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Prototyped a first-gen lightweight email sync service in Go. Once in production with several customers it was an order of magnitude cheaper, faster, and more reliable overall than its predecessor. Years later, this project ballooned to power some of the top apps on the App Store serving 10M+ DAUs across the globe.

### Investment @ 8VC
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Seed / Series A investments in the enterprise B2B SaaS space under Bhaskar Ghosh https://www.8vc.com/team/bhaskar-ghosh

### Co-Founder @ Flipout
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Created a sports betting app for fans to engage and compete around the teams, games, and events they love. Raised a pre-seed round, hired contractors, scrambled like crazy, and learned a ton!

### Software Developer @ Blockchain at Berkeley
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States
Building on Ethereum

### Software Developer @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Improving Amazon Fashion recommendations

### Data Scientist @ Goodly Labs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, California, United States
Liberating digital archives for research and social good


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
UC Berkeley College of Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/omkar-waingankar
- Portfolio: https://omkar.cc

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Last updated: 2026-04-13