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Viren Mohindra

Software Engineer at Pepper

New York, New York

Overview 

Viren Mohindra is a Software Engineer at Pepper in New York, with a background in founding and leading software engineering roles at Gently and Jupitrr. He has invested in startups like Gently and Jupitrr at the pre-seed stage, showcasing a keen interest in AgTech, E-commerce, and FinTech sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Software Engineer

    2024 - Current

Pepper is an eCommerce platform for food distributors, convenience stores, and other marketplaces.

Raised $46,000,000.00 from Harmony Partners, Greylock, ICONIQ Growth, Index Ventures and Imaginary Ventures.

  • Founding Software Engineer

    2022 - 2024

    Gently is building the Amazon of secondhand. We help 100,000s of customers find the best deals from Poshmark, Depop, eBay, and more - Helped build the Gently.com website + iOS App with Next.js and React Native - Brought checkout in-house by integrating payments, automating checkout on our partners' websites, and email parsing the transactional & order information - Reverse engineered and built ETL pipelines to serve thousands of searches every hour

Using AI to make shopping gently used goods as easy as shopping retail. Find the best listings from Poshmark, Depop, eBay, and more.

Raised $2,000,000.00 from Jon Oringer, Dorm Room Fund, Peter Rahal, Adam Guild, Joe Greenstein, Edward Lando, Pareto Holdings, v1.vc, Austen Allred and Centre Street Partners.

  • Founding Software Engineer

    2021 - 2022

    Jupitrr is an AI video maker that enables creators to make content marketing videos much faster by hot swapping stock footage, and add captions for all social platforms - Videos are generated programmatically, which allows them to be editable in real-time. Helped develop the infrastructure to support bypassing AWS concurrency and timeout limits for exporting 30 minute long full HD videos - Built the initial automated video generation pipeline hosted on AWS Lambda, communicating with Firestore + React frontend. Reduced generation time from 180 secs down to less than 20 by moving serverless

  • Founder

    2020 - 2021

  • Experience Consultant Intern

    2019 - 2019

  • Software Engineering Intern

    2018 - 2019

  • Software Engineering Intern

    2018 - 2018

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