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Nimesh Chakravarthi

Nimesh Chakravarthi

YC-backed founder, ex-LinkedIn engineering leader, UC Berkeley EECS

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San Francisco, California
Joined August 2025

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Summary

Founder & builder: Nimesh has transitioned from long-form engineering leadership at LinkedIn into founding and scaling early-stage startups. He co-founded Bramble (consumer real-estate/AI) in 2024 and Edgedive (YC-backed AI support engineer) in 2025, showing a pattern of launching product-first companies that apply AI to practical workflows. ycombinator+3
Product and AI focus: Across his public work and posts, Nimesh emphasizes practical, integrated AI agents — e.g., agent workflows that live in Slack/Linear/GitHub, auto-investigation and merge-ready PRs for engineers, and AI-backed real-estate experiences. This indicates strengths in applied ML/AI product design, developer tooling, and building tightly integrated experience layers. edgedive+2
Engineering leadership & product execution at scale: A multi-year tenure at LinkedIn (progressing from intern to senior engineering manager) combined with GSI experience at UC Berkeley shows both technical depth (EECS background) and teaching/mentoring experience. Public summaries attribute contributions to messaging, smart replies, and product launches that helped LinkedIn scale features. berkeley+2
Public / community presence: Nimesh is active publicly (X/Twitter posts, LinkedIn articles) sharing learnings about YC, engineering hiring, agent design, and product lessons — indicating he engages with the startup and engineering communities and shares operational insights from building startups. x+2

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Snowboarding and photography (personal photos and travel posts visible on social feed). instagram