Tarun Dhawan

Overview

Building Relay Grid in Bengaluru - agritech. Grew the team to 61 people across 4 countries. Before that: InMobi and Oracle. Most at home with rural distribution and fintech. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

Experience

1. Co-founder & CTO

   Jul 2025 - Present
   Relay Grid · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Previously built and sold a small agritech company.
   • Took Relay Grid from zero to $7 million ARR.
   • Raised $28 million across 2 rounds.
2. Software Engineer

   Jul 2023 - Jul 2025
   InMobi · 2 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Wrote the supply chain service that now handles 86 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 868ms to 131ms.
3. Senior Platform Engineer

   Aug 2020 - Jul 2023
   Oracle · 2 yr 11 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
   • Grew the developer experience team from 6 to 37 engineers.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 40 a week to 4.
4. Staff Software Engineer

   Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
   Swiggy · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 6 product teams use to ship changes safely.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
   Reliance Jio · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 35% in two quarters.
   • Built the experimentation framework 34 product teams use to ship changes safely.

Projects

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Education

1. SRM Institute of Science and Technology

   B.Tech, Economics
   2013 - 2017