Yonas Beshawred

Yonas is a two-time startup founder. Previously he was Founder & CEO of StackShare- a community-driven SaaS platform that was used by over 40M software developers. Yonas raised $12M in venture capital for StackShare before the company was acquired last year by FOSSA, one of the leading open source compliance and security startups. Yonas served as Head of Product for StackShare at FOSSA for under one year before starting his new company StarSling this past April. StarSling is building “Cursor for DevOps” and graduated from Y Combinator’s first-ever Spring Batch (X25) in June 2025. Yonas also sits on the board of several non-profits including Harambeans, The Biya Belayneh Foundation for Mental Health, and Habeshas in Tech. Yonas is Ethiopian American and was born and raised in Maryland. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems and half of a masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction both from University of Maryland College Park.