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Manav Kohli

Manav Kohli

Co‑founder & technologist focused on ecommerce customer intelligence

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Los Angeles, California
Joined August 2025
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Summary

Founder & platform technologist: Manav co‑founded Tydo (YC S20) and served as its CTO, building the engineering and data stack for an ecommerce customer intelligence product. He focused on low‑latency analytics, scalable ELT pipelines, and exposing data models for AI‑driven segmentation and recommendations. tydo+2
Machine‑learning & data infrastructure practitioner: His public writing and engineering work at Thanx document hands‑on experience designing ML stacks for startups—prioritizing isolated feature pipelines, Airflow orchestration, and production tradeoffs between latency, cost, and scalability. thanx
Practical software engineering foundation and academic grounding: An undergraduate CS degree from Claremont McKenna and a senior thesis on parallel programming in Python show both formal academic work and practical engineering skills, supplemented by public GitHub projects. claremont+1
Transitioning toward venture/advising: In 2025 Manav appears on Ribbit Capital's public team listing and is described in some profiles as shifting into advisory and venture roles after an operational period at Tydo. ribbitcap+1

Work

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Writing

Advice for Deploying Your First Machine Learning Stack

September 1, 2019

A practical guide (authored while at Thanx) covering architecture choices, ML‑infrastructure MVPs, data lakes, worker management, and lessons for startups building production ML pipelines.

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Assessing the Suitability of Python as a Language for Parallel Programming

January 1, 2016

Undergraduate senior thesis analyzing the efficiency and accessibility of Python parallel programming tools, with benchmarks and discussion of MPI for Python and IPython Parallel.

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Hobbies

Open‑source & coding projects (various repos including CS course projects and a personal website) github