Divya Raghavan

Co-founder & CTO, Willow Foods - agriculture · rural distribution · fintech

Willow Foods

Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

10+ years experience

IIT Kharagpur

English, Hindi, Tamil

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Building Willow Foods in Chennai - agritech. Took Willow Foods from zero to $8 million ARR.

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rural distributionsupply chainagriculturefintech

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Hiring our first founding engineer at Willow Foods - Chennai

Role: Founding engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Hybrid
Compensation: ₹42-90 LPA
Team: Founding team, 6 people
Start: Within two months
Must have: Production experience with agriculture Production experience with fintech Good judgment about what not to build
Process: 3 conversations, no take-home

Comp ₹20-76 LPA. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Chennai, Indiafintechsupply chainrural distribution

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Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for a go-to-market co-founder for patient intake for D2C brands

The idea: Patient intake for D2C brands
Stage: Prototype
I bring: 10 years in agritech
Looking for: Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment: Full-time now
Location: Chennai or remote

I bring 20 years of agritech (currently Willow Foods). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Chennai, Indiarural distributionsupply chainagriculture

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Experience

Co-founder & CTO
Oct 2023 - Present
Willow Foods · 3 yr · Full-time · Chennai, India
- Signed 209 paying customers, 10 of them enterprises.
- Raised $3 million across 3 rounds.
Senior Embedded Engineer
Apr 2022 - Oct 2023
Walmart Global Tech · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 6.
- Moved 64% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Principal Engineer
May 2020 - Apr 2022
KPMG · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
- Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
Director of Engineering
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Tech Mahindra · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
- Built the experimentation framework 11 product teams use to ship changes safely.
- Wrote the rural distribution service that now handles 75 million requests a day.
Senior Engineering Manager
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
BrowserStack · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
- Designed the reconciliation system that matches 4 million transactions a day.

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Education

IIT Kharagpur
B.Tech, Economics
2001 - 2005

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