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- Nitish PoddarFounder/CTO · KastleS24B2B · San Francisco
- Rishi Choudhary@therishicFounder/CEO · KastleS24B2B · San Francisco
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Nitish PoddarKastleFounder/CTOSummer 2024B2BSan Francisco, United States10—Rishi ChoudharyKastleFounder/CEOSummer 2024B2BSan Francisco, United States10https://x.com/therishic
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Nitish Poddar
Founder/CTO·Kastle
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder/CTO
Team size10
BatchSummer 2024
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusActive
StageGrowth
BIO
Nitish is the co-founder and CTO of Kastle (kastle.ai). Before Kastle, Nitish was a tech lead at Verkada, where he led development for a patented motion search system and built out the entire backend inference infrastructure. He also led the firmware delivery team on a new fleet management system and led engineering for Incident Management, Verkada's newest product line. Nitish graduated from UIUC with a degree in Computer Science.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
Credentialsnone mentioned
DisciplineEngineerKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
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