Andrea Mariana Sandoval

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Founder & CEO at Drift Robotics | ex-Nvidia

Drift Robotics
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
13+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English
Raising
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Overview

I started Drift Robotics to fix developer tooling for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Signed 184 paying customers, 11 of them enterprises. Grew the team to 110 people across 3 countries. Most at home with Rust and open source. Learning to draw.

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Rustcommunityopen sourcedeveloper toolsproduct
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closes in 3 months

Raising a $15M Series A for insurance claims for agencies

Stage
Series A
Raising
$15M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$155k MRR after 8 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$155k MRR after 8 months. Looking for investors who know public sector tech and can help with expansion into India and SEA.

San Francisco, CArustproductopen source
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Drift Robotics · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Previously built and sold a small developer tooling company.
    • Signed 243 paying customers, 8 of them enterprises.
  2. Sales Manager
    Dec 2021 - Feb 2024
    Nvidia · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Opened 5 new logos over $3 million ACV in the region.
  3. Regional Sales Director
    Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
    JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Closed 166% of quota two years running.
    • Opened 12 new logos over $4 million ACV in the region.
  4. Sales Development Representative
    Aug 2016 - Jul 2019
    Netflix · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Signed 8 channel partners that now source 19% of pipeline.
    • Closed 201% of quota two years running.
  5. Sales Manager
    Apr 2014 - Aug 2016
    UnitedHealth Group · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Opened 10 new logos over $3 million ACV in the region.
    • Signed 25 channel partners that now source 18% of pipeline.

Projects

Open-source Rust toolkit
2025

A small library for developer tooling that 370 developers star on GitHub.

Developer tooling benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing developer tools and product on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Computer Science
    2001 - 2003
  2. University of Michigan
    BSE, Computer Science
    1996 - 2000

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