Summary
Maanav Khaitan is a founding engineer and M.E.T. student at UC Berkeley who blends nine years of hands-on software experience with business acumen to build high-performance fintech and crypto infrastructure. He currently focuses on verifiable compute and low-latency trading systems, having previously shipped production systems at startups and companies like Plaid, Caldera, and Warp (including a Rust-based terminal). Comfortable at the intersection of product, engineering, and growth, he has also led a pre-seed accelerator and contributed to blockchain research at Berkeley. Based in New York, he favors customer-centered engineering that drives adoption and measurable growth. Outside of work, he curates personal projects under InfinityVM and is active in the Neo Scholar program, signaling a persistent curiosity about decentralized finance and developer tooling.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Oakridge International School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science + Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science + Business Administration at UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
English, Spanish, Hindi