Summary
Kishin Manglani is a serial founder and software engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling consumer and developer-facing products from mobile to backend services. Currently co-founder at Applause, he previously founded and exited multiple startups (Adappt; Charge for Stripe) and held growth and mobile leadership roles at Venmo, Tinder-adjacent companies, Bustle and Cover. He brings deep full-stack expertise across iOS (Swift/Obj‑C), JavaScript (Node/React), Python frameworks, AWS and relational and NoSQL databases, combined with product, UX and go-to-market experience. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and strategic decisions, Kishin has repeatedly turned small teams into acquisitive businesses. Based in New York and armed with a CS master’s from Penn, he blends startup grit with proven exit experience and a knack for turning payment and mobile product ideas into revenue-generating services.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Computer Science, Masters in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania