About
Rahul Sharma previously grew a data security startup from $75K to $1M ARR in nine months with a team of three, competing against OneTrust and Cyera and winning customers such as Groww, PayU, and CRED while the company raised $6.25M. Earlier, he was the youngest manager hired at MPL, where he led two products from alpha, and at 19 he founded a consumer brand that supported over 100 women survivors of violence.
CEO at Specter
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Experience
- SpecterCo-Founder and CEOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Entrepreneurs FirstEntrepreneur in Residence2025San Francisco Bay Area
- Matters.AIPlatform Lead - Data Privacy & Classification2025
- Matters.AIFounding Engineer2023 — 2025
- Mobile Premier League (MPL)Software Development Engineer2023
- Mobile Premier League (MPL)Technical Program Manager2022 — 2023
- Project AgniCo-Founder2020 — 2023
- KukuProduct2022
- GETechnical Product Strategy2021
- Harvard National Model United NationsDelegate2019 — 2020Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
Education
- Netaji Subhas University of TechnologyBachelor of Technology - BTech
- Abbotsholme School
- Vivek High School
Skills & more
Spring Boot1Google Cloud Platform (GCP)1Apache Beam1gRPC1Java1PostgreSQL1Amazon Web Services (AWS)1C++2Python1Jira1SQLMicrosoft Excel1
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)CMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft PowerPointPython (Programming Language)HTML5JavaScriptNode.jsLarge Language Model Operations (LLMOps)United NationsEnterprise Technology SalesLegal Policy- Financial Markets — Yale School of Management
- Grade 6 Communication Skills — Trinity College London
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- Rahul Sharma founded Specter.
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