Roopak Venkatakrishnan

Angel Investor at Accel

Overview

Venkatakrishnan is an Angel Investor at Accel as of July 2022[4]. Venkatakrishnan currently works on solving headcount-related challenges and has previously held engineering roles at Google[9], Twitter[10], and Bolt, where Venkatakrishnan served as Head of Platforms & Infrastructure from March 2020 to May 2022 before becoming Director of Engineering[5][6]. Venkatakrishnan also worked as a Software Engineer at atSpoke, which was acquired by Okta[8]. Since 2022, Venkatakrishnan has served as Co-Founder at Caro[3]. Venkatakrishnan holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University Chennai[11][13].

Profile introduction
Source excerptLinkedIn [2]

Currently working on solving Headcount, ex Google, Twitter, Bolt & Spoke. I'm always curious to find the latest technology in the field, put it to good use, and love a good challenge. Talk to me about headcount, recops, dev platforms, and madras filter coffee

Career history

  1. Co-Founder2022 to presentCaro
  2. Angel InvestorJul 2022 to presentAccel
  3. Director Of EngineeringMay 2022 to Dec 2022Bolt
  4. Head of Platforms & InfrastructureMar 2020 to May 2022Bolt
  5. Staff Software EngineerMay 2019 to Mar 2020Bolt
  6. Software EngineerNov 2017 to May 2019atSpoke (Acquired by Okta)
  7. Software EngineerJun 2016 to Nov 2017Google
  8. Software EngineerJul 2014 to Jun 2016Twitter

Education

  1. Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science2012 - 2014North Carolina State University
  2. Certificate In Business Accounting, Accounting and Business/Management at CIMA2010 - 2012
  3. BE, Computer Science and Engineering2008 - 2012Anna University Chennai

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