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Mendral

AI DevOps Engineer

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveB2B

What they do

Problem

Software teams waste time and ship risk due to CI/CD failures, flaky tests, slow builds, broken releases, and manual code review and compliance overhead.

Solution

Mendral is an autonomous AI DevOps Engineer that continuously observes and diagnoses delivery pipelines, takes corrective actions, and learns from each run to improve performance, quality, security, and compliance.

Who it's for

Developers and DevOps teams at software organizations running CI/CD pipelines, especially in mid-size to enterprise environments.

Founders

Sam Alba

Founder

Co-founder of Mendral | Your CI fixes itself now | Co-founder of Dagger | ex-Docker (1st hire, VP Eng)

Andrea Luzzardi

Founder

Fixing CI before AI breaks it. Co-founded Dagger (W19). Wrote Docker’s first lines of code in the earliest days. Ex-Google · Ex-Microsoft.

Open roles 2

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $180K - $220K

Founding DevRel

San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $150K - $200K

Company timeline

Founded2025
YC batchWinter 2026
StatusActive
Team size2 people
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

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