Summary
Sanketh Katta is a seasoned technology founder and executive with 13 years of experience building developer-first platforms for connected vehicles as the founder, CTO/COO, and now Board Member at Smartcar. Based in Berkeley, he blends deep data-science and software engineering roots from LinkedIn with product and operational leadership to scale APIs that let apps locate, unlock, and read vehicle data. He has a strong quantitative background from UC Berkeley in Operations Research and a curious, cross-disciplinary streak—evidenced by recent culinary studies in plant-based arts—bringing unconventional perspective to product strategy. Known for hiring and mentoring engineering teams, Sanketh combines hands-on technical fluency in distributed systems and analytics with proven startup execution.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Operations Research and Management Science, Operations Research and Management Science at University of California, Berkeley
Graduated with Honors, Graduated with Honors at Saratoga High School
Diploma Plant-Based Culinary Arts, Diploma Plant-Based Culinary Arts at Le Cordon Bleu Paris
Applied Economics and Management, Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University
London School of Economics and Political Science