Murali Rohith Sharma

Overview

I invest in fintech at Driftwood Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 2 boards. Previously an operator for 11 years before investing. Before that: Oracle and Groww. Most at home with due diligence and board work. Trail runner and occasional climber.

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Experience

1. General Partner

   Feb 2026 - Present
   Driftwood Partners · 8 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Sit on 6 boards.
   • Backed 53 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
2. Director of Engineering

   Apr 2022 - Oct 2025
   Oracle · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Wrote the venture capital service that now handles 6 million requests a day.
3. Principal Engineer

   Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
   Groww · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
   Capgemini · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 6.
5. Principal Engineer

   Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
   Myntra · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Led or co-led 33 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.

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Education

1. NIT Surathkal

   B.Tech, Finance
   1995 - 1999