Danial Asif

Danial Asif is the CTO and Co-founder of Risely AI, an enterprise software company developing artificial intelligence agents to automate complex administrative workflows. The startup is currently participating in the active Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch. Previously, Asif spent over thirteen years as a software engineering leader, serving as an early engineer at DoorDash where he architected the logistics company's global search and recommendation infrastructure. During his tenure, he scaled this core search platform to process more than six billion orders and support over $7 billion in annual revenue. He also directed DoorDash's Voice AI division, launching the platform's first fully automated conversational ordering system to handle billions of customer interactions. His technical background centers on building scalable enterprise-grade infrastructure and deploying conversational artificial intelligence systems for high-volume consumer technology and logistics applications.