Ajith Kishore Rao

Overview

Co-founder & CTO of Copper HQ, working on D2C food brands. Raised $35 million across 2 rounds.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. Co-founder & CTO

   May 2023 - Present
   Copper HQ · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Raised $30 million across 2 rounds.
   • Grew the team to 39 people across 4 countries.
   • Took Copper HQ from zero to $2 million ARR.
2. Director of Engineering

   Mar 2022 - May 2023
   Dream11 · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely.
3. Principal Engineer

   Jun 2018 - Mar 2022
   Intuit · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Led or co-led 16 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Dec 2016 - May 2018
   Tech Mahindra · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 356ms to 49ms.
5. Staff Embedded Engineer

   Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
   InMobi · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 530ms to 108ms.
   • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

1. Indian Statistical Institute

   M.Stat, Economics
   2008 - 2010
2. IIT Kanpur

   B.Tech, Economics
   2001 - 2005