Vijay Pandurangan
CEO And Co-Founder at Olima Ventures
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVijay Pandurangan is a seasoned technology leader, investor, and founder with 14 years of experience building teams and products at the intersection of software and biotech. As CEO and Co-Founder of a stealth biotech focused on targeted B-cell therapies, he blends deep engineering instincts with translational science and active angel investing through Olima Ventures. Previously he scaled engineering organizations at Twitter and founded Mitro (acquired by Twitter), and he brings hands-on efficiency improvements—evident in contributions to open-source projects like SleekXMPP where he optimized CPU and memory use. He teaches software engineering best practices at Stanford Medicine, advising researchers on cloud, testing, and reproducible workflows, and has consulted on software for personalized cancer immunotherapy. Based in New York, Vijay combines operator experience from Google’s early engineering ranks with a knack for spotting startups that scale, investing early in companies like Sourcegraph and Materialize. He is pragmatic, sector-agnostic in deal-making, and uniquely fluent in both low-level performance optimization and high-level biotech product strategy.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Ignite certificate, Stanford Ignite certificate at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBSc Computer Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering at The George Washington UniversityMSc Electrical and Computer Engineering, MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityColumbia | SIPA
English, French
Github Skills (6)
xmpp10
logging10
performance-optimization10
python10
xml9
multithreading8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fritzy/SleekXMPP
Nov 2011 - Nov 2011
Python 2.6+/3.1+ XMPP Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Vijay focused on optimizing the performance and efficiency of the sleekxmpp library, a Python XMPP library. Their contributions primarily involved refactoring logging statements to prevent unnecessary computation and string creation, which resulted in significant CPU time savings. Additionally, the user addressed inefficiencies by removing unnecessary data copies within the codebase. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the codebase by addressing and optimizing data handling practices.
pythonxmppxmpp-librarypython-2python-2-6
mitro-co/mitro
Jul 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
code-serverclient-serverminecraft
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