Summary
Pardha Ponugoti is a product-focused engineering leader and founder with a decade of experience building fintech and AI-enabled products for startups and SMBs. Currently VP of Product Engineering at Arc, he previously founded Sygma and led engineering teams at Square, Ribbon, and Trim, blending hands-on technical delivery with product strategy. His background spans trading and quantitative work at Susquehanna to software and data roles, giving him a rare combination of domain knowledge in finance and strong engineering instincts. He’s comfortable shipping full-stack systems and scaling teams through high-growth stages, often translating ambiguous market needs into pragmatic product roadmaps. Based in Portsmouth, NH, Pardha brings entrepreneurial grit from founding a startup and a Yale Applied Mathematics degree to his leadership style. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who bridges trading, data, and product engineering to deliver measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Applied Mathematics at Yale University
Terre Haute South Vigo High School