Rahul Behal

Rahul Behal is co-founder and chief technology officer of Gumloop, a platform for building AI agents and automated workflows by dragging and connecting modules. He started it with Max Brodeur-Urbas, and the company has since moved from Vancouver, Canada, to San Francisco, California.

Building Seller Tools at Amazon

Behal's early internships were in chemical and process plant engineering, including at Trench Group, where he helped update procedures at a high-voltage equipment plant and assisted with lab tests, according to his site. He moved into software and joined Amazon as a software development engineer in its Selling Partner Experience organization, building products for sellers. He later worked as a machine learning operations engineer at Arctic Wolf Networks, deploying models in production on AWS.

Leaving Big Tech

Out of university his goal had been a job at a big tech company, he said on Y Combinator's Root Access podcast. Within about a week at Amazon he changed his mind. "I cannot do this for the rest of my life," he recalled thinking. Things moved so slowly, he said, that "what we shipped with a team and 10 people I could do with, like, my buddy on a weekend."

Meeting Max Brodeur-Urbas in Vancouver, Canada

Behal met Brodeur-Urbas at an AI event in Vancouver, Canada, where both were presenting their projects. Behal was showing a personalized AI tutor for students, and Brodeur-Urbas was showing an early version of Gumloop. "What he was building sounded really cool. It sounded really promising. I thought it had real potential to work," Behal said. Brodeur-Urbas was looking for a co-founder, and Behal joined.

Building Gumloop

"We started the company in a bedroom in Vancouver as a side project," Brodeur-Urbas told TechCrunch, explaining that the founders were trying to solve a simple problem for nontechnical people in a Discord server. TechCrunch described the pair, an ex-Microsoft engineer and a former AWS developer, as believing AI had promising narrower uses even if broad automation tools were unreliable. Gumloop went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch and raised a $17 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners in January 2025.