Sidharth Menon
Co-founder & CEO at Carson AI (YC W26)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSidharth Menon is a software engineer-turned-founder with eight years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems and ML-driven infrastructure. A Harvard CS graduate and former Palantir tech lead, he has deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Go, full-stack development, and data/ETL tooling from stints at AWS and Elementl. As co-founder and CEO of Carson AI (YC W26), he now focuses on AI agents with adaptive interfaces and rigorous security, blending product intuition with systems-level engineering. He values rapid iteration and shipping pragmatic solutions, having moved from research on adversarial vision to production-grade orchestration and automation. Outside work he’s an avid reader, amateur chef, and tennis fan — traits that reflect a curiosity-driven, disciplined approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Columbus AcademyBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Harvard University
Hindi, Chinese, English
Github Skills (19)
observation10
dagster10
data-collection10
operation10
python10
data-science10
airbyte10
data-engineering10
metadata10
analytics10
scheduler10
etl10
workflow-automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sidkmenon/personal-blog
Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Next.js blog starter built with Typescript, MDX, and Tailwind CSS.
Contributions:17 pushes in 5 months
next-jsreacttailwindcsstailwindcss
sidkmenon/Algorithms-2019-Summer
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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