Athira Padma Kurup

Overview

I started Tandem Security to fix supply chain software for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Grew the team to 88 people across 5 countries. Gardening and composting evangelist.

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Experience

1. Co-founder & COO

   Dec 2023 - Present
   Tandem Security · 2 yr 10 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
   • Raised $23 million across 2 rounds.
   • Grew the team to 47 people across 3 countries.
2. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2021 - Dec 2023
   Intel · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Led the migration of 53 services to operations.
   • Wrote the operations service that now handles 20 million requests a day.
3. Staff Android Engineer

   Nov 2019 - Feb 2021
   Accenture · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 39 a week to 3.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 6.
4. Principal Engineer

   Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
   Axis Bank · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Led or co-led 27 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Sep 2014 - Feb 2017
   Cognizant · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 35 a week to 1.

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Education

1. IIT Guwahati

   B.Tech, Computer Science
   2006 - 2010