Adhithya Mohanraj is a VP of Engineering who builds ML-driven data products and tooling to improve decision-making in high-stakes domains, currently leading engineering for investment and impact workflows at City Light Capital. He previously designed recommendation and ranking systems at YouTube that scaled to billions of daily users and launched a personalized posts-only feed with 100M+ daily impressions. Earlier work at Amazon delivered production-grade ad-serving infrastructure and $1M+ annual cost savings through performance and fleet optimizations. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate with 11 years’ experience, he blends hands-on ML engineering, systems performance, and product-facing delivery while scaling small teams and vendor ecosystems. Beyond industry roles, he teaches at scale—having led a 180-student Intro to Python course—and founded a nonprofit to expand CS access, reflecting a sustained focus on education and scalable human impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
High School, High School at California High School
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Adhithya Mohanraj - Vice President, Engineering at City Light Capital