About
Chandru Shanumugasundaram has built backend systems across legal technology, developer tools, banking, and restaurant applications. He is currently developing agents for food distributors and suppliers.
Founder at burntYC S25
Intro paths
YC
Chandru went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran burnt's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Chandru can intro founders to burnt's investors below.
burnt's investors Β· 3
Co-founders at burnt
Experience
- BURNTCo-Founder and CTOcurrent2023 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- ThoughtWorksSenior Application Consultant2021 β 2023Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Imaginea Technologies Inc.Senior Development Engineer2019 β 2021Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- ExterroSoftware Engineer2018 β 2019Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
- ExterroSenior Associate Software Engineer2017 β 2018Greater Coimbatore Area
- ExterroAssociate Software Engineer2015 β 2016Coimbatore Area, India
Education
- KGiSL Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science2011 β 2014
- SBOA matriculation and higher secondary schoolComputer Science
Skills & more
Apache solr1Hadoop1MapReduce1Natural Language Processing (NLP)GraphQL1Apache SparkLarge Language Models (LLM)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Python (Programming Language)1Apache AirflowJava25J2EE Web Services13
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RESTful WebServicesSpring BootAmazon Web Services (AWS)DockerPySparkPostgreSQLJenkinsSolrCassandraRedisMicroservicesKubernetesLanguages English Β· Tamil
From Chandru's professional profile.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,668
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