Prasad Pillai

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Co-founder & COO, Larch Analytics - community · open source · developer tools

Larch Analytics
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIM Lucknow
English, Hindi, Tamil
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Overview

Building Larch Analytics in Chennai - developer tooling. Raised $7 million across 3 rounds. Grew the team to 49 people across 2 countries. Before that: Asian Paints and Bajaj Finserv.

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Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
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Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for inventory forecasting for hardware startups

The idea
Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for inventory forecasting for hardware startups
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
13 years in developer tooling
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Chennai or remote

I bring 14 years of developer tooling (currently Larch Analytics). Ideally you've led a design team. Full-time from day one.

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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Jul 2025 - Present
    Larch Analytics · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Grew the team to 21 people across 2 countries.
    • Took Larch Analytics from zero to $1 million ARR.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2022 - Jul 2025
    Asian Paints · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Shipped 29 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
    Bajaj Finserv · 2 yr · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Moved 82% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped 20 launches on the web team without a rollback.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2017 - Mar 2020
    PwC · 3 yr · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Moved 77% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2014 - Mar 2017
    Bajaj Finserv · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

  1. IIM Lucknow
    MBA, Business Administration
    2012 - 2014
  2. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Engineering
    2008 - 2012

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