Medha Kothari
Product Manager at Uniswap Labs
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Product Manager
2024 - Current
Doing product for all wallet-related things at Uniswap Labs.
Investor
2021 - 2023
Invested in early-stage crypto startups, with a focus on infrastructure.
Variant is an early-stage venture firm investing in crypto networks & platforms building The Ownership Economy.
Co-Founder
2018 - 2023
Cofounded this 501c3 non-profit with the aim to increase diversity and break down barriers to entry in the blockchain space. she256.org
she256 aims to increase diversity & break down barriers to entry in the blockchain space.
Software Engineer
2019 - 2021
Full-stack software engineer; specifically built out developer tooling (SDKs, CLIs) for the Celo ecosystem.
Software Engineer
2019 - 2019
Celo Foundation develops mobile-first blockchain platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone.
Executive Head of Consulting
2018 - 2020
Led the for-profit Consulting division of Blockchain @ Berkeley. We consulted for companies such as BMW, Qualcomm, BASF, and ExxonMobil on their blockchain use-cases, and built out POCs for them.
Software Engineer
2017 - 2019
Developed internal and external projects for this crypto-focused research organization
Investment Partner
2017 - 2018
Invested in student founders, through this student-run venture fund backed by First Round capital
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.
Software Development Intern
2018 - 2018
Worked on their blockchain team, where I created an end-to-end prediction market application, which allows users to create events and predict on their outcomes. Utilized NodeJS in the backend along with a smart contract on JPMorgan’s private blockchain Quorum.
SAP IoT Start up Accelerator is a global co-innovation program for B2B startups innovating in the world of the Internet of Things.
Lab Assistant for CS 10 (Beauty and Joy of Computing)
2017 - 2018
Lab assisted for this introductory CS course. Taught students the basic principles of Computer Science through lab exercises encapsulating key concepts such as HOFs, object-oriented programming, and recursion.
Student Technology Consultant
2017 - 2018
Worked on campus to make sure students' personal devices can securely connect to a network, resolved software-related issues, educated student customers about technology resources, and and assisted with hardware and software installations.
Student Assistant Science Instructor
2016 - 2017
I assisted in carrying out the BLAZES and BLISS programs of this national lab, which entailed spreading science education to local elementary school children.
Berkeley Lab is a national laboratory that creates advanced new tools for scientific discovery.