Shiv Deepak Muddada is a seasoned software engineer with 15+ years of software engineering experience. His purpose in life is to inspire people to create technology with joy and wonder, and accelerate innovation.
Shiv started his journey of learning and creating with technology when he was in the 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 tech startups, where he has consistently focused on creating technology that is robust, scalable, and capable of driving growth.
Throughout his professional journey, Shiv has worked extensively across domains like HR-tech, Competitive Programming, Search in AI, SaaS Sales Tech, Smart Home Hardware, 3D printing and manufacturing, and more with a bias toward measurable impact and rapid iteration.
One of Shiv’s early experiences was with HackerRank (YC S11) as its first employee. He played a key role in its transformation from a early-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 a startup: a crowdfunded smart home device developed in public. 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. He’s currently focused on AI search infrastructure, portable agent skills for Cursor, Claude Code & Cowork, and agentic engineering.
He is currently a Staff Software Engineer at You.com, where he leads efforts on AI search infrastructure to push boundaries of what AI can do with Web Search.
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