Ranjani Vasudevan

S

Co-founder & CTO at Kestrel Energy · Rust, open source

Kestrel Energy
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
FMS Delhi
English, Hindi, Telugu
Raising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Building Kestrel Energy in Hyderabad - developer tooling. Grew the team to 20 people across 4 countries. Before that: Morgan Stanley and HCLTech. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Working sessions on open source
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Crypto token projects
  • Paid accelerator offers

Usually replies within a day

Skills
open sourceRustcommunityproductdeveloper tools
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $750k Series A for price monitoring for solar installers

Stage
Series A
Raising
$750k
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$321k from an existing fund
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
226 paying customers after 12 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

226 paying customers after 12 months. Looking for investors who know consumer apps and can help with regulatory approvals.

Hyderabad, India · remote OKrustopen sourceproduct
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Kestrel Energy · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Raised $12 million across 3 rounds.
    • Signed 278 paying customers, 23 of them enterprises.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
    Morgan Stanley · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Moved 64% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Staff Android Engineer
    Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
    HCLTech · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 85 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 39% in two quarters.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
    Razorpay · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Grew the storage team from 6 to 38 engineers.
  5. Android Engineer
    May 2017 - Sep 2019
    Walmart Global Tech · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Wrote the open source service that now handles 20 million requests a day.
    • Shipped 30 launches on the storage team without a rollback.

References

No references yet.

Education

  1. FMS Delhi
    MBA, Business Administration
    2012 - 2014
  2. Christ University
    BBA, Business Administration
    2007 - 2011

Details

Compensation expectations
What they are targeting for their next role.
Visible to connections
Direct contact details
Direct email and a scheduling link.
Visible to connections

Trusted Partners

Sponsored