Sahil Mistry

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Co-founder & COO at Relay HQ | ex-HCLTech

Relay HQ
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
XLRI Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Relay HQ, working on edtech. Previously built and sold a small edtech company. Raised $18 million across 2 rounds. Before that: HCLTech and Atlassian. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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Hiring our first founding engineer at Relay HQ - Bengaluru

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
₹50-80 LPA
Team
Founding team, 9 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with mobile Production experience with growth Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp ₹37-46 LPA. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Bengaluru, Indiamobileeducationgrowth
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Dec 2021 - Present
    Relay HQ · 4 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Raised $30 million across 3 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
    • Signed 182 paying customers, 11 of them enterprises.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
    HCLTech · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 661ms to 56ms.
    • Wrote the growth service that now handles 29 million requests a day.
  3. Staff Full-Stack Engineer
    Aug 2016 - Sep 2019
    Atlassian · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 6.
    • Moved 65% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2014 - Aug 2016
    BigBasket · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Wrote the education service that now handles 34 million requests a day.
  5. Software Engineer
    Feb 2013 - Jul 2014
    Mphasis · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Wrote the education service that now handles 13 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur
    MBA, Business Administration
    2010 - 2012
  2. Amity University
    B.Tech, Business Administration
    2004 - 2008

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