Summary
Sid Rajaram is a founder-engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building perception, robotics, and cloud data products, now leading Clodo as Co-Founder & CEO backed by Y Combinator. His background spans applied research at Stanford AI Lab to production roles at MinIO (natural language on S3) and real-world autonomy work at Plus and Blue River, giving him cross-domain fluency from embedded perception to large-scale storage. Sid blends deep technical instincts—developed through internships at Amazon, Samsung, and John Deere—with product leadership and startup execution. He studied physics, philosophy, and computer science at UC Berkeley after earlier studies in statistics and CS at UIUC, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to hard problems. Notably, he has repeatedly moved research prototypes into deployed systems (robotic arms, factory-safety CV, self-driving trucks), signaling a talent for shipping robust, production-ready ML and robotics software. Based in Texas but operating globally, he pairs technical depth with founder-level strategic focus.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
physics, philosophy, computer science, physics, philosophy, computer science at University of California, Berkeley
S25, S25 at Y Combinator
statistics, computer science, statistics, computer science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish