KS

Kartik Sathappan

Investor at 25kchecks.com

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Angel Investor

    2017 - Current

    38+ investments, one unicorn exit 🦄 -Highlights: Groq, Superhuman, Turing

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2021 - 2023

    We're building the first design -> code tool that actually works.

  • Product Manager

    2019 - 2019

    3D, voice, consumer - stay tuned

  • Fellow

    2019 - 2019

    https://www.beondeck.com/#odf On Deck Cohort 2

  • Product Manager - Blockchain

    2018 - 2018

    -Modernizing public finance -First blockchain-based bond approved by a city government (Berkeley)

  • Product Manager

    2016 - 2017

    -Launched TurboTax’s first beyond tax product with 3rd party partner Earnest -Improved offer conversion by 130% through enhanced messaging around consent screens -Pioneering diversity within the TurboTax product by launching our first screen with multicultural avatars -Managing both cross-functional and interdependent teams across the company -Improving the user experience through analytics and regular customer interview sessions

  • Software Engineer Internship

    2015 - 2015

    -Won the App Store Marketing Challenge with "Game of the Day" which was announced on stage at WWDC17 (100+ other Apple interns competed) -Published US Patent 10,277,829 -Integral in the direction and ideation, especially concerning the customer experience, for the challenge -Designed and developed original software products for FaceTime using Xcode, C, and Objective-C -Created and prototyped new features with the IMG team’s existing codebase

  • Media & Technology Operations Intern

    2014 - 2014

    -Created the Video Quality Control software product for pre-air assets from the ground up -Implemented the Video QC as a backend service using Java, FFmpeg, OpenCV, Maven, and Spring -Created the front-end components for both my own Video QC service as well as the Transcoding Service -Took advantage of AngularJS to create dynamic single-page applications

  • Web Developer Internship

    2013 - 2013

    -Led development of improving the product’s chat systems to work both internally and sync with Facebook -Worked with designers on the core functionality and design of the product -Performed research on various versions of ruby and server implementations that would best fit the goals of the website -Created real-time notification systems for Facebook and Twitter using Faye, Ruby, and JavaScript -Worked on managing and accessing back-end databases (MongoDB)

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