Prasad Sekar

Co-founder & CTO, Thistle Mobility - HR tech · SaaS · payroll

Thistle Mobility

Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

6+ years experience

IIM Bangalore

English, Hindi, Marathi

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Overview

Building Thistle Mobility in Pune - HR software. Previously built and sold a small HR software company. Signed 192 paying customers, 25 of them enterprises. Before that: Boston Consulting Group and Oracle. Most at home with SaaS and sales. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

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SaaSsalesHR techpayroll

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Topics: HR software, HR tech, SaaS
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6 years of HR software. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

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Experience

Co-founder & CTO
Oct 2024 - Present
Thistle Mobility · 2 yr · Full-time · Pune, India
- Signed 323 paying customers, 22 of them enterprises.
- Grew the team to 92 people across 2 countries.
Backend Engineer
Feb 2022 - Oct 2024
Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
- Moved 76% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Director of Engineering
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
Oracle · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
- Led the migration of 36 services to HR tech.

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Education

IIM Bangalore
MBA, Business Administration
2021 - 2023
University of Delhi
B.Com, Engineering
2016 - 2020

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