Andrea Philip

Overview

Founder of Orchard HQ (edtech). 10 years of building before that. Raised $29 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Walmart Global Tech and Groww. Most at home with mobile and growth. Coffee nerd.

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Experience

1. Founder

   Jun 2025 - Present
   Orchard HQ · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Signed 180 paying customers, 21 of them enterprises.
   • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   May 2023 - Jun 2025
   Walmart Global Tech · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Moved 62% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Staff Software Engineer

   Sep 2020 - May 2023
   Groww · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Moved 84% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
   Intel · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 1 million transactions a day.
5. Principal Engineer

   Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
   Intuit · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Led or co-led 15 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Backed 57 founders at pre-seed and seed.

Projects

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Education

1. XLRI Jamshedpur

   MBA, Business Administration
   2019 - 2021
2. Christ University

   BBA, Business Administration
   2011 - 2015