Karthik Manjunath
Founder at ModelChimp
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Manjunath is a serial founder and product-led entrepreneur with 8+ years building and scaling consumer and B2B platforms, including two successful exits (Ridingo and Santhe SMS). He currently leads Mercuri, a customer-communication platform using SMS, WhatsApp and AI to streamline appointment scheduling and follow-ups for 2,000+ Shopify and Wix merchants across the US and India, with a focus on wellness and healthcare. Prior roles span product and operations at high-growth startups (LimeTray) and early-market growth at Uber Australia, giving him deep experience in scaling teams, channels, and integrations. Karthik also co-created ModelChimp, an open-source ML experiment tracking tool, reflecting his interest in developer tools and practical ML workflows. Based in Bengaluru and trained in management at the University of Sydney, he pairs technical curiosity with founder grit—and, not obvious from titles alone, practices meditation as part of his leadership approach.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at PES UniversityB.E, Information Science, B.E, Information Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityThe University of Sydney
Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil
Github Skills (17)
experiment8
artificial-intelligence7
ai7
transactional-emails7
deep-learning6
mailing-list6
newsletter6
machine-learning6
smtp6
data-science6
mailing5
email-marketing5
sms-gateway5
model-management5
ml4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SantheApps/mercuri_website
Feb 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:17 pushes in 2 months
SantheApps/agent_website
Feb 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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