Shiv Deepak Muddada is a seasoned software engineer with over two decades of programming experience, having started his journey in high school. He brings a unique blend of deep technical expertise and leadership, with a strong track record of building and scaling high-performance engineering teams.

His career has largely been rooted in the startup ecosystem, where he has consistently focused on creating technology that is robust, scalable, and capable of driving autonomous growth.

Throughout his professional journey, Shiv has worked extensively across domains like Product-Led Growth, Gamification, Growth Hacking, and Cloud Cost Optimization—always with a bias toward measurable impact and rapid iteration.

One of Shiv’s early milestones was joining HackerRank (YC S11) as its first employee. He played a key role in its transformation from a zero-revenue seed-stage startup into a market-leading technical assessment platform with tens of millions in ARR.

Shiv has a long-standing passion for open-source. As a student, he contributed to the Sahana Eden disaster management platform and was selected for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) in 2011—an honor awarded to just 1,000 students worldwide each year.

In recent years, Shiv has built and led two startups: a crowdfunded smart home device developed in public, and Touch AI, an intelligent sales email platform that was part of Techstars NYC'23 and earned recognition as the #4 product of the day on Product Hunt. He also launched a Figma plugin to automate design systems, streamlining the collaboration between designers and developers.

Technically, Shiv is fluent across a wide array of stacks and particularly enjoys working with Python, Ruby, and JavaScript. He’s currently diving deeper into Rust and FPGA programming, continuously pushing his learning curve.

He is now a Staff Software Engineer at You.com, where he leads efforts on the Generative AI Serving backend—scaling cutting-edge AI to serve millions of users in real time.

Previous Roles

  • Co-Founder & CTO, Touch AI (Techstars NYC'23)
  • Founder, Aeroh (Smart Home IoT Startup)
  • Employee #1, HackerRank (YC S11)
  • Student Developer, Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2011