Evan Chopra
| Evan Chopra | |
| Occupation | Co-Founder and CTO of Kestrel AI |
|---|---|
| Known for | Kestrel AI |
Evan Chopra is an American software engineer and entrepreneur who is the co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Kestrel AI, an AI-native cloud incident response platform backed by Y Combinator.[1] The platform uses artificial intelligence agents to identify, explain, and resolve cloud infrastructure incidents in seconds.
Early life and education
Chopra earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and a Master of Science degree in computer science from San Jose State University (SJSU).
Career
Before founding Kestrel AI, Chopra worked at Lockheed Martin Space. He subsequently joined Illumio, a cybersecurity company, where he served as a founding engineer on the company's Kubernetes security team. These roles provided him with experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and container orchestration security.
Chopra also built and managed a home-lab server that provided workspace and shared GPU resources for approximately 40 users, supporting workflows ranging from media encoding to machine learning training.
Kestrel AI
Chopra co-founded Kestrel AI, where he serves as CTO. The company developed an AI-native cloud incident response platform designed to detect, investigate, and remediate cloud and Kubernetes incidents. The platform offers several core capabilities: continuous 24/7 cloud monitoring with automated root cause tracing and fix generation; an AI chat copilot that allows users to investigate complex, multi-dependency incidents using natural language; risk assessment through specialized AI agents that discover cross-domain security risks and provide remediation steps; a unified cloud infrastructure map with real-time classified traffic overlay; and GitOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) integration that converts AI-generated fixes into pull requests within existing CI/CD pipelines.[2]
The company's website notes that its engineering team includes people with backgrounds at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR), Illumio, Square, and DNAnexus. Setup is described as requiring a single Helm install command for Kubernetes environments, with agentless integration for other cloud services.
Kestrel AI is backed by Y Combinator and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.[3]
References
- ↑ "Kestrel AI". 'Kestrel AI}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Kestrel AI". 'Kestrel AI}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Kestrel AI". 'Kestrel AI}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.