Adhityaa Chandrasekar
| Adhityaa Chandrasekar | |
| Occupation | CEO and co-founder of Subtrace |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-founding Subtrace, a zero-code network tracer for backend infrastructure |
| Education | University of Waterloo; IIT Madras |
Adhityaa Chandrasekar is a software engineer and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California. He is the co-founder and CEO of Subtrace, a zero-code network tracer for backend infrastructure. Subtrace was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2025 (W25) batch.[1]
Career
Before co-founding Subtrace, Chandrasekar accumulated approximately ten years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on developer-facing infrastructure and observability. He worked as a software engineer at Google, where he focused on Kubernetes internals and infrastructure monitoring for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). He also worked as a site reliability engineer (SRE) at LinkedIn.
Chandrasekar holds degrees from the University of Waterloo and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras).
Subtrace
Chandrasekar co-founded Subtrace alongside Sachin Sridhar, who serves as co-founder and CTO. Sridhar previously worked as a software engineer at Microsoft on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, and also studied computer science at IIT Madras.
Subtrace is a zero-code network tracer that provides developers with visibility into every HTTP request occurring within their production infrastructure without requiring any code changes. The tool is designed to function similarly to a browser's inspect element feature but applied to backend systems, showing incoming and outgoing HTTP requests in real time. It consolidates request details such as payloads, latency, status codes, headers, and logs into a single interface. Subtrace uses BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) technology under the hood, which allows it to operate without root privileges or modifications to application code. The product is largely written in Go and targets teams working with distributed systems, operating system internals, security, and networking.[2]
Subtrace operates as a business-to-business (B2B) product primarily serving engineering and product teams. In March 2025, the company raised a $500,000 seed round with participation from Y Combinator and investor Kevin Lin.[3] As of early 2025, Subtrace's open-source repository on GitHub had accumulated approximately 2,500 stars.[4]
Chandrasekar has also maintained a personal blog covering topics in software engineering, including Go worker pools, SQL practices, and software pricing strategy.
References
- ↑ "Subtrace - Y Combinator". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Subtrace". 'GitHub}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Subtrace — Work at a Startup". 'Subtrace}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Subtrace". 'GitHub}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.