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Padma Shalini Vaidyanathan

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Founder, Cairn Systems - growth · education · mobile

Works at
Cairn Systems
Location
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Experience
13+ years experience
Education
ISB Hyderabad
Languages
English, Hindi, Kannada
Co-founder
Message Connect

Overview

Founder of Cairn Systems (edtech). 20 years of building before that. Signed 154 paying customers, 4 of them enterprises. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Working sessions on growth
  • Early customers and design partners
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  • Paid accelerator offers
  • Offshore staffing offers

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Skills
educationmobilecontentgrowth
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a go-to-market co-founder: vendor onboarding in LatAm

The idea
Vendor onboarding in LatAm
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
13 years in edtech
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Bengaluru or remote

I bring 20 years of edtech (currently Cairn Systems). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

Bengaluru, Indiaeducationcontentgrowth
Open

Experience

  1. Founder
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Cairn Systems · 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Took Cairn Systems from zero to $2 million ARR.
    • Grew the team to 27 people across 4 countries.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Jan 2023 - Oct 2025
    Philips · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Backed 30 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 12 years before investing.
  3. Frontend Engineer
    Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
    Siemens · 1 yr 4 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 344ms to 79ms.
    • Moved 70% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
    BigBasket · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Sit on 6 boards.
  5. Staff Android Engineer
    Jan 2014 - Nov 2017
    Zoho · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 21% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. ISB Hyderabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2009 - 2011
  2. Shri Ram College of Commerce
    B.Com, Engineering
    2002 - 2006

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