Naren Thiagarajan is a founder and engineering leader with 12+ years building production-grade data, ML, and cloud systems that prioritize reliability, privacy, and measurable ROI. He co-founded FloydHub (YC W17), led its technical direction and cloud infrastructure for 100k+ users, and later directed MLOps and platform teams at Stitch Fix focused on model delivery, feature stores, and discovery. At Rocket Labs he now helps companies convert single workflows into production AI wins with six-week pilots that prove before/after impact. His background spans large-scale backend engineering (supporting tens of millions of devices at Location Labs/Avast) to startup-first product execution, giving him a rare fluency across architecture, ops, and go-to-market tradeoffs. Comfortable briefing executives or diving into deployment pipelines, he combines hands-on technical depth with hiring and team-building experience. Based in Oakland, he鈥檚 particularly experienced in retail CX, logistics, transportation, and FP&A use cases where practical ML delivers clear business value.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
BVB
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Stanford University
Contributions:3 releases, 68 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
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