Lewis Polansky
CEO @ Captain (YC W26)
About
Hey, I'm Lewis, Co-Founder and CEO at Captain. Captain delivers the strongest enterprise data retrieval engine ever built. Connect cloud storage and effortlessly search knowledge with much higher accuracy than standard RAG (Avg: 78% → 95%+ citations).A little about me:- Full-stack engineer of 10+ years and avid product designer- Recognized by the House of Representatives for community software solutions- Founded CyberSpace, a premier CTF hacking group- Invented the soy-based milk carton- Studied quantitative finance at PurdueLet's connect!
United States
San Francisco
Information Technology & Services
Organizational Leadership, Software Engineering, Research and Development (R&D), Business Development, Front-End Development, Communication, User Experience (UX), Figma, Android Development, iOS Development, Cybersecurity, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Linux, Firebase, Online Marketing, Oracle Application Server, Embedded Systems, Dart, Flutter
Experience
CEO
Captain (YC W26)
San Francisco Bay Area
Get accurate answers from your files. Captain is RAG's final form, a knowledge engine for your data, no matter where it's stored.
Software & Business Development
JUA Technologies International
Noblesville, Indiana, United States
Helped African farmers dry crops with solar-powered devices. Programmed embedded systems & built in Dart-Flutter.
Head of Business Development
Purdue IEEE
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Founder
CyberSpace Cybersecurity
South Pasadena, California, United States
Established CyberSpace to prepare high school students for the cybersecurity industry through first-hand experience with lessons, hacking demos, and industry speakers. Orchestrated annual King of the Hill hacking competitions. 1 IP address, 60 minutes, 1 "King of the Hill". Trained several National Semifinalist teams for the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot National Cyber-Defense Competition. Expanded the High School club network beyond the original branch of ~40 active members to two new locations and in 2024, launched CyberSpace Online.
Development Team Lead
Congressional App Challenge
Los Angeles, California, United States
2020 - Won "Best Technical Design" Award with a team of 3. Built Yelp for volunteering opportunities with C#, SQL, Node.js. 2022 - Inspired by a summer exchange in France, my team of 2 created a text message translator app using React Native.
Education
Y Combinator
Purdue University
Finance
Purdue Hackers, Purdue Founders, Honors College, Purdue IEEE, Purdue Soybean Innovation Competition, Reformed University Fellowship
UCLA
Computer Science / Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
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