Keerthi Sahana Rao

Sample

Principal, Hawthorn Growth - open source · developer tools · venture capital

Hawthorn Growth
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
6+ years experience
Jadavpur University
English, Hindi, Telugu
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Principal at Hawthorn Growth, backing developer infrastructure companies. Led or co-led 27 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later. Sit on 5 boards. Before that: Nvidia and LTIMindtree. Most at home with open source and marketplaces. I coach a junior basketball team.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Second opinions on open source decisions
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • SEO and link-building offers

Replies within two days

Skills
venture capitaldeveloper toolsopen sourcemarketplaces

Experience

  1. Principal
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Hawthorn Growth · 10 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Backed 57 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
    • Sit on 7 boards.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Apr 2023 - Dec 2025
    Nvidia · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Sit on 6 boards.
    • Backed 60 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2021 - Apr 2023
    LTIMindtree · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 19 a week to 4.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 2.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
    Mastercard · 9 mo · Contract · Hyderabad, India
    • Led the migration of 39 services to venture capital.

References

No references yet.

Education

  1. Jadavpur University
    B.E., Engineering
    2016 - 2020

Details

Compensation expectations
What they are targeting for their next role.
Visible to connections
Direct contact details
Direct email and a scheduling link.
Visible to connections