Summary
Mayank Makwana is a product-driven founder and engineering leader with a decade of experience building scalable consumer and infrastructure products across startups and tech companies in the Bay Area. As Co-Founder and CEO of Reeva, he combines hands-on engineering roots with product leadership honed at Lyft, where he launched Rentals, developed bike station networks, and optimized driver navigation experiences. His background includes systems work at Leanplum migrating high-throughput APIs to Kubernetes and building microservices, plus security-focused engineering at Shape Security, reflecting a rare blend of infrastructure, mobile, and security expertise. He started building products early—founding mobile apps and a web consultancy in college—and led rapid-growth community tech events, scaling a hackathon from 200 to 700 attendees and raising six-figure sponsorships. Comfortable shipping across stacks (mobile, backend, data pipelines) and leading cross-functional teams, he pairs technical depth with customer-focused product intuition. Based in San Francisco and grounded in Computer Science from Penn State, he brings entrepreneurial drive and pragmatic execution to early-stage product scaling.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Penn State University
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Pennsylvania
English, Gujarati, Hindi, French