Venky Iyer
Co-Founder at Additive
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVenky Iyer is a generalist full-stack engineer and founder with a decade of experience building product, backend, data and ML systems, currently co-founding Additive to modernize tax accounting. His background blends hands-on machine learning, data engineering and product work—from architecting Facebook’s Entity Graph and crowdsourcing infrastructure to shipping ML-powered prototypes and mobile vision apps. He’s consulted across startups and scale-ups, improving observability, databases (Aurora/Postgres/Redshift), and developer-facing features that accelerate product iteration. Comfortable leading teams and shipping end-to-end, he pairs deep technical chops with product instincts honed at Facebook and early-stage fintech. Trained as a computational biologist (PhD-level work at UC Berkeley), he brings a research mindset to practical engineering trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Molecular and Cell Biology emphasis on Genomic and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Molecular and Cell Biology emphasis on Genomic and Computational Biology at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
metadata10
tqdm10
calc10
knitr10
linter10
command-line-tool10
webextension10
color-filter10
multiple-machines10
argparse10
progress-bar10
mupdf10
nlp10
json10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
indigoviolet/indigoviolet.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
indigoviolet/conda-pip-minimal
Sep 2022 - Apr 2024
conda+pip minimal export
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 6 months
condapip
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