Sreeram Hari Naidu

Overview

Founder of Rivet Bio (agritech). 15 years of building before that. Grew the team to 90 people across 5 countries. Before that: Persistent Systems and Capgemini. Most at home with agriculture and fintech. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

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Experience

1. Co-founder & CTO

   Apr 2023 - Present
   Rivet Bio · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Grew the team to 120 people across 4 countries.
   • Previously built and sold a small agritech company.
   • Took Rivet Bio from zero to $2 million ARR.
2. Principal Engineer

   Apr 2020 - Apr 2023
   Persistent Systems · 3 yr · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Sit on 6 boards.
   • Led or co-led 38 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
3. Engineering Manager

   Nov 2017 - Apr 2020
   Capgemini · 2 yr 5 mo · Contract · Chennai, India
   • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
4. Software Engineer

   Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
   Myntra · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Wrote the rural distribution service that now handles 7 million requests a day.
5. Director of Engineering

   Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
   EY · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 15 a week to 4.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 5.

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Education

1. VIT Vellore

   B.Tech, Economics
   2007 - 2011