Vivek R
Co-founder & CTO at winfunc (YC S24)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVivek R is a founder and CTO with eight years of hands-on experience building resilient, production-grade systems and startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He co-founded winfunc (YC S24) to commercialize an autonomous hacking agent that turns fuzzy AppSec alerts into actionable exploits, blending security research with pragmatic product engineering. Previously he engineered fault-tolerant PoS validator platforms at Chorus One and consulted on cloud-native infrastructure and cost-performance tradeoffs at Thoughtworks, demonstrating a strong reliability-first approach. His background spans end-to-end product builds, IoT optimization, Kubernetes operations, and machine‑vision work from a Google Summer of Code project—an unusual mix that bridges embedded systems, infra, and applied ML. Educated in computer science with additional training in technology policy, Vivek pairs technical depth with an entrepreneurial drive to ship high-impact, auditable systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in Public Policy - Technology and Policy, Graduate Certificate in Public Policy - Technology and Policy at The Takshashila InstitutionBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering at APJ Abdul Kalam Technological UniversityHigh School Diploma, 95%, High School Diploma, 95% at Central Board of Secondary Education
English, Hindi, Konkani, malyalam
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Github Skills (200)
python10
windows10
command-line-interface10
lockscreen10
leaderboard10
lua10
code-analysis10
linting10
hivemq10
linux10
formatter10
theory10
latency10
api10
rust10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
123vivekr/timers
Jul 2021 - Mar 2023
A deep-work tracker in your command line.
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
deep-workproductivityrusttimer
123vivekr/123vivekr.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jun 2020
Personal Blog
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
jekyll
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