About
Shav Vimalendiran worked as a quantitative developer at an algorithmic hedge fund and as a founding engineer at a fintech company. He is now building SAMMY, a platform focused on automating post-sales operations.
Shav @shavtge
do you guys feel theyve neutered Fable aswell..
Jul 15, 2026
Shav @shavtge
Open source β read the code: https://t.co/fztV5mNbvF Install in three lines: /plugin marketplace add shavvimal/cairn /plugin install cairn@cairn /cairn:setup
Jun 29, 2026
Shav @shavtge
The tools are disposable. The corpus isn't. That fix is cairn β a Claude Code plugin that turns every Claude / Cursor / Codex session + your meetings into searchable local markdown you own. Install + code below β
Jun 29, 2026
Founder at SAMMY LabsYC W25
Intro paths
Shav went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran SAMMY Labs's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Shav can intro founders to SAMMY Labs's investors below.
SAMMY Labs's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at SAMMY Labs
Experience
- SAMMY Labs (YC W25)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2024 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Scrypt Solutions LtdQuantitative Developer2023 β 2024London Area, United Kingdom
- NDUK - DuveraData Scientist - Full Stack Founding Engineer2022 β 2023London, England, United Kingdom
- Apollo Tyres LtdData Scientist2021 β 2022London, England, United Kingdom
Education
- Y CombinatorW252025
- Imperial College LondonMaster of Engineering - MEng, Chemical Engineering2017 β 2021
- Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet2010 β 2017
Skills & more
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Node.jsDjangoTailwind CSSJavaScriptMongoDBBabel.jsReact.jsFlaskFull-Stack DevelopmentTeamworkAnalytical SkillsWriting- AWS Certified Machine Learning β Specialty β Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner β Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Deep Learning Specialization β Coursera
- Convolutional Neural Networks β Coursera
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects β Coursera
- Sequence Models β Coursera
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization β Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning β Coursera
From Shav's professional profile.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,668
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Imperial College London mafia119
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Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet mafia2
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Same school
Also attended Y Combinator2,000
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Also attended Imperial College London432
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