ARYA BASTANI

Arya Bastani is the Co-Founder and CEO of camfer, a B2B engineering and product design startup based in San Francisco, California. Prior to launching the four-person company as part of the Summer 2024 cohort, he worked as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services on the Resource Access Management team. During his tenure at AWS, he developed consumer-facing software and implemented integration tests that reduced system errors by 75 percent. Bastani graduated from UC Berkeley in 2023 with a degree in Computer Science, where he conducted machine learning research on EEG signal classification in Professor Rikky Muller's BLISS lab. He also served as Chief EECS for the university's Formula Electric team, leading the electrical engineering development for electric racecars. His technical background currently centers on scalable cloud infrastructure, embedded systems, and advanced machine learning frameworks.