Karthik Manjunath
Founder at Mercuri
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Manjunath is a serial founder and product-led entrepreneur with 8+ years building and scaling consumer and B2B platforms, including two successful exits (Ridingo and Santhe SMS). He currently leads Mercuri, a customer-communication platform using SMS, WhatsApp and AI to streamline appointment scheduling and follow-ups for 2,000+ Shopify and Wix merchants across the US and India, with a focus on wellness and healthcare. Prior roles span product and operations at high-growth startups (LimeTray) and early-market growth at Uber Australia, giving him deep experience in scaling teams, channels, and integrations. Karthik also co-created ModelChimp, an open-source ML experiment tracking tool, reflecting his interest in developer tools and practical ML workflows. Based in Bengaluru and trained in management at the University of Sydney, he pairs technical curiosity with founder grit—and, not obvious from titles alone, practices meditation as part of his leadership approach.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at PES UniversityB.E, Information Science, B.E, Information Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityThe University of Sydney
Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil
Github Skills (19)
experiment8
transactional-emails8
smtp7
sms-gateway7
newsletter7
email-marketing6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
artificial-intelligence6
ai5
mailing5
mailing-list5
data-science5
pytorch5
dashboard4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karthik666manjunath/retail
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Rasa's retail starter pack
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
pythonrasastarter-packphppack
karthik666manjunath/cartRecovery
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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