Sekhar Paladugu
Strategic Initiatives
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSekhar Paladugu is a product-focused engineering leader and founder with 10 years of experience building software and scaling mission-driven ventures at the intersection of capital, technology, and public policy. He has led startups and nonprofit spinouts—most recently scaling MyFriendBen to help 75,000+ families secure $50M+ in benefits—and now drives strategic initiatives at Next50 to expand economic security for older adults and caregivers. Sekhar combines hands-on engineering and product work (early-stage growth at Broadlume and Helio Home, the latter acquired) with fundraising and go-to-market experience from founding Ritter and other ventures. Based in Denver, he pairs a liberal-arts background from Stanford with rigorous software training from Turing School, enabling him to translate complex policy and funding challenges into practical, scalable tech solutions. An operator who’s comfortable from code to capital, he’s as likely to prototype a product feature as he is to close strategic partnerships.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Phillips Exeter AcademyBachelor of Arts, History, Bachelor of Arts, History at Stanford University
Github Skills (65)
reactstrap10
software-design9
imports9
prefetch9
babel-plugin9
airtable9
whiteboard9
async8
react-table8
react8
server-side-rendering8
bootstrap8
typescript8
codemirror7
git-workflow7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Carmer/workflow_practice
Oct 2015 - Mar 2020
Teaching and Understanding Git Workflow in teams
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
teachinggit-workflowunderstandingworkflow
sekharp/kids-catalog
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 75 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 4 months
elementarymlamachine-learningkidsprototype
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