Summary
Siddharth Venu is a product-focused engineering leader with 10 years of experience building and securing fast-growing fintech and SaaS products from the ground up. As a founding engineer and current Head of Security at Hyperbound, he blends hands-on development with security ownership for AI-driven sales training, and previously led core engineering at Bloom and co-founded YC-backed BharatX where he built BNPL SDKs, credit-scoring algorithms, and scalable AWS infrastructure. He thrives in ambiguity and is known for shipping end-to-end solutions across mobile, web, and backend stacks (Kotlin, React/React Native, TypeScript, Python) while embedding fraud and risk controls into product flows. Based in Chennai, he also mentors open-source contributors and has a quirky affinity for anime that surfaces in his GitHub persona—an indicator of a pragmatic engineer who keeps creativity in his toolkit.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
W22, W22 at Y Combinator
School, Computer Science, School, Computer Science at The Hindu Senior Secondary School
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
English, Tamil