Sandilya Miduthuri

Founder & technical leader building AI visibility tools: Sandilya co‑founded Siftly (previously Airdot) to help brands measure and improve how they are discovered and recommended inside LLM/assistant answers (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity). He leads the technical product and engineering work and has positioned the company through YC (W22) and public product writing. siftly+2

Background in product‑grade engineering at large Indian and global tech firms: bios and profiles list prior software engineering roles at Microsoft, Flipkart, and Qualcomm, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad (2012–2016). This background supports his transition into founding and building engineering‑heavy startup products. aventure+1

Open‑source and ML deployment focus: Sandilya and the Siftly team published and maintain airdot‑deployer, an open‑source utility to simplify ML model deployment (local/docker and K8s/Seldon), indicating hands‑on experience with ML tooling and MLOps. github+1

Active public presence across developer and creator communities: he maintains an X account (handle @sandymiduthuri), a Medium presence, and a Codeforces profile (sandilya28), showing engagement with engineering, product, and community audiences. x+2