About
Vamsi Chitters is Head of Engineering at Luminai. His experience includes building early-stage products, operating scalable applications, and leading distributed engineering teams.
Founder at ElphYC W19
Intro paths
YC
Vamsi went through Y Combinator (Winter 2019) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Vamsi can intro founders to Elph's investors below.
Elph's investors · 6
DST GlobalGeorge Town, Grand Cayman · $100K – $200M checksIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checksKleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checksRibbit CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $15M checksTiger Global ManagementNew York · $1M – $100M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2019
Co-founders at Elph
Experience
- LuminaiHead of Engineeringcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- BrexSenior Engineering Manager2019 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- ElphCo-Founder2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleEngineering2014 — 2018
- GoogleEngineering Intern2013Mountain View, California
- eBay IncEngineering Intern2012
- LexityEngineering Intern2011
Skills & more
C++2Java6Python8Software Engineering5Algorithms5Programming2Eclipse5Hadoop4Android2C/C++1jQuery2PHP2
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CCSSPerlBigTableLanguages French · Hindi · Kannada · Telugu
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Vamsi Chitters?
- Vamsi Chitters is Head of Engineering at Luminai. His experience includes building early-stage products, operating scalable applications, and leading distributed engineering teams.
- Where does Vamsi Chitters work?
- Vamsi Chitters is Founder of Elph.
- What companies did Vamsi Chitters found?
- Vamsi Chitters founded Elph.
- Where did Vamsi Chitters go to school?
- Vamsi Chitters studied at Y Combinator (Entrepreneurship); Stanford University (Master of Science, Computer Science (AI/ML Track)); University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).
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Also worked at Luminai7
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