Summary
Neel Kothari is a founder and software leader with 12 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and customer-facing SaaS for the printing industry. He founded PrintFlo to help print shops increase revenue by automating admin work, drawing on prior roles from engineering at Printavo and Flexport to CTO at Campus Ink. Neel is a full-stack practitioner comfortable shipping front-end React interfaces and back-end services in Python, Ruby, and Node, with a history of rapid prototyping and roadmap-driven product work. He has experience scaling metrics and event infrastructures and has repeatedly partnered with founders to turn early prototypes into production software. Based in Chicago, he combines hands-on coding with strategic product leadership, often stepping into engineering leadership roles at growth-stage companies. Notably, his career includes building integrations and dashboards that directly reduced manual work for operations-heavy businesses—a throughline that informs PrintFlo’s product.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) 2016 Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) 2016 Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign