Keerthi Amrutha Acharya

Overview

14 years in software engineering, the last 1 at HCLTech, where I work on the ML platform team. Shipped 25 launches on the ML platform team without a rollback. Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 22% in two quarters. Before that: BigBasket and SAP.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Sep 2025 - Present
   HCLTech · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Led or co-led 31 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Backed 42 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. Engineering Manager

   Sep 2023 - Sep 2025
   BigBasket · 2 yr · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 41% in two quarters.
3. ML Engineer

   Apr 2021 - Aug 2023
   SAP · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 3 weeks to 5 days.
   • Ran 157 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
4. ML Engineer

   Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
   Flipkart · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 2 weeks to 6 days.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
5. ML Engineer

   Feb 2017 - Sep 2019
   Paytm · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Ran 146 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.

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Education

1. NID Ahmedabad

   B.Des, Electrical Engineering
   2007 - 2011