Malini Venkatesan

Overview

Founder of Maple Ops (vertical SaaS for clinics). 18 years of building before that. Signed 160 paying customers, 23 of them enterprises. Grew the team to 79 people across 5 countries. I write a small newsletter about vertical SaaS for clinics.

Experience

1. Co-founder & CTO

   Feb 2022 - Present
   Maple Ops · 4 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Previously built and sold a small vertical SaaS for clinics company.
   • Grew the team to 77 people across 5 countries.
   • Raised $20 million across 2 rounds.
2. Software Engineer

   Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
   Amazon · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Moved 67% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Wrote the hiring service that now handles 88 million requests a day.
3. Engineering Manager

   Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
   Asian Paints · 2 yr · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Moved 73% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 715ms to 145ms.
4. Staff ML Engineer

   Jan 2014 - Nov 2016
   Wipro · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Built the language models now used in 6 product decisions a quarter.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jul 2012 - Jan 2014
   Tech Mahindra · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 6.
   • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 3 million transactions a day.

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Education

1. Manipal Institute of Technology

   B.Tech, Economics
   2003 - 2007