Rahul Desai is an operations and strategy leader with 11 years of experience helping startups and portfolio companies scale through process design, automation, and revenue operations. As Executive in Residence at Cintrifuse Capital and former GM at Sylva, he blends P&L ownership and product strategy with hands-on ops systems that drove 41% YoY top-line growth without extra sales spend. He founded and sold Upslope, an outcomes-focused online business school, and previously built Trendify, a machine-learning startup that predicted startup exits with strong historical accuracy. Rahul’s background spans BizOps, compliance, finance, and HR at high-growth firms, and he pairs that with pragmatic technical chops from full-stack training and freelance web development. He’s also an active writer on strategy and psychology, and known for turning complex regulatory and data problems into operational playbooks that scale.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Time (Cohort 14) Full-Stack Web Development, Full-Time (Cohort 14) Full-Stack Web Development at BloomTech
B. S. in Business Administration Operations & Information Management, B. S. in Business Administration Operations & Information Management at Georgetown University
Github Skills (51)
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aws-lambda9
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Programming languages (8)
CSSCJavaScriptHTMLLessAssemblyRich Text FormatPython
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Rahul Desai - Executive In Residence at Cintrifuse Capital