Sudheer Shankar Raju

Overview

I started Orchard Analytics to fix D2C food brands for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Signed 137 paying customers, 16 of them enterprises. Before that: Walmart Global Tech and Zomato. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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Experience

1. Co-founder & COO

   Nov 2024 - Present
   Orchard Analytics · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Raised $26 million across 2 rounds.
   • Took Orchard Analytics from zero to $1 million ARR.
   • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
2. Staff Frontend Engineer

   Jun 2021 - Nov 2024
   Walmart Global Tech · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Principal Engineer

   Jul 2019 - Apr 2021
   Zomato · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Sit on 3 boards.
4. Principal Engineer

   Apr 2016 - Jul 2019
   Freshworks · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Led or co-led 25 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
5. Staff Site Reliability Engineer

   Feb 2014 - Apr 2016
   Accenture · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 24 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 3.

Projects

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Education

1. XLRI Jamshedpur

   MBA, Business Administration
   2007 - 2009
2. Christ University

   BBA, Business Administration
   2002 - 2006