Advith Chelikani
Co-Founder at Pylon
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdvith Chelikani is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable APIs and developer platforms, now co-founding Pylon to modernize B2B customer support across Slack, Teams, email, and in-app channels. Previously he led Samsara’s Developer Ecosystem from inception, scaling API traffic from under 1M to over 100M requests per day and designing core systems like rate limiting, token scoping, and at-scale logging. He blends product-minded backend engineering with platform and developer-tooling expertise, having built OAuth marketplaces, webhook frameworks, and internal dev infrastructure. A Caltech CS graduate and KPCB fellow, Advith has internship experience at Slack, Coursera, Nutanix, and NASA’s JPL, reflecting early depth in performance and infrastructure work. Investors in Pylon include YC, General Catalyst, and a16z, signaling strong market validation for his vision. He’s pragmatic about shipping reliable systems and brings a founder’s appetite for hard platform problems that sit at the intersection of developer experience and customer-facing support.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorCalifornia Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
French, Telugu, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
slack-api10
balloon10
python-bot10
serve10
peach9
messenger9
zendesk-api9
spec9
slack9
golang9
api9
chat9
api-documentation9
speech9
docker8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AChelikani/achelikani.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:77 pushes in 5 years 5 months
TheHacktech/TheHacktech.github.io
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:92 commits, 2 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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