Vikranth Keerthipati
Founder at Ascend Studio
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVikranth Keerthipati is a founder and engineering leader with a decade of experience building startups and ML-driven products across trading, computational biology, and consumer apps. He led Phia as CTO from 0 to 1M users in eight months and helped the app reach #23 on the App Store before moving on to new ventures, and now runs Ascend Studio while co-founding Startup Exchange to connect student builders. His background includes multiple Amazon internships, YC-backed sync.labs, PostEra's ML drug-discovery work, and hands-on trading-algo development, reflecting a blend of research-grade ML and production systems engineering. Comfortable spanning 0→1 product creation and infrastructure-scale delivery, he also publishes technical essays on his Substack and has a track record of shipping practical models and developer tools that bridge academia and industry.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Amador Valley High School
Spanish, Telugu, English
Github Skills (29)
mongoose8
mongodb-database7
mongodb-driver7
faunadb7
mongodb6
nodejs5
elearning5
sqlite-extension5
mental-health4
health4
python3
rna-seq3
chatbot3
bioinformatics3
sqlite2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MihirBafna/wable
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:38 commits, 32 pushes in 1 day
vikranthkeerthipati/LANOSDB
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Creating volunteer opportunities through MongoDB.
Contributions:17 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
faunadbopportunitiesmongovolunteer-opportunitiesmongodb-database
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