Nagendra Dhanakeerthi
Senior Staff ML Engineer, AI Platforms And Infrastructure
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNagendra Dhanakeerthi is a 10-year software leader and two-time founder based in San Francisco who builds production AI systems, data platforms, and distributed infrastructure. He has taken multiple products from 0→1, most recently co-founding Multiwoven (reverse ETL) and growing it into AI Squared after acquisition, and now leads AI platforms and safety at Zendesk. His hands-on experience spans LLM applications, RAG systems, agentic workflows, guardrails, evals, and ML integrations, coupled with operational scale from payment stacks that processed billions of transactions. Comfortable switching between founding CTO duties and senior engineering management, he blends product intuition with deep technical execution. He holds an EMBA and global strategy study credentials, signaling both business and technical fluency. Outside work he’s a curious technologist who enjoys exploring good coffee while experimenting with pragmatic open-source tooling.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration at Indian School of BusinessGlobal strategic management & Corporate Entrepreneurship, Global strategic management & Corporate Entrepreneurship at National University of Singapore
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu
Github Skills (42)
postresql10
snowflake10
data-warehouse10
rails-api10
databricks10
dbt10
react10
data-engineering9
cdp9
bigquery9
ruby9
typescript9
customer-data-platform9
sinatra9
etl9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rubyonai/chatgpt-ruby
Mar 2023 - Jan 2026
🤖💎 ChatGPT Ruby – a simple, easy-to-integrate gem for accessing the OpenAI API
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 66 pushes in 2 years 10 months
chatgptopenai-apirubyaiopenai
nagstler/gitmarshal
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
GitMarshal is a command-line tool that allows developers to display metrics about GitHub repositories.
Contributions:3 releases, 10 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year
command-line-tool
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