
Nimesh Chakravarthi
YC-backed founder, ex-LinkedIn engineering leader, UC Berkeley EECS
nimesh
San Francisco, California
Joined August 2025
Network
1.4K connectionsJCGLMG
RRDWBC
DMDHPC
JDCCSL
HCAK
TDAP
MAPLDC
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
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
References to LinkedIn engineering writeups ("Building smart replies for member messages")
January 1, 2017Cited LinkedIn engineering work on smart replies and message-suggestion systems that Nimesh contributed to or is referenced by in later academic/workshop papers about response generation and retrieval techniques.
Build your own swarm of coding agents
2024-2025A long-form LinkedIn Pulse post discussing approaches to building coordinated coding agents and agent workflows (practical notes on integrating agents with developer tooling).
Hobbies
Snowboarding and photography (personal photos and travel posts visible on social feed). instagram
Similar profiles
DM
Deepan Mehta
Co-Founder at Edgedive
2.3K connections
RKRobert Khoury
Co-Founder & CTO at Amdahl AI
1.3K connections
JJonathan (Jasper)
Head of Product at ReflexAI
3.4K connections
LLLisa Li
Co-founder | Product & Operations at Blockcast
54.7K connections
BBBenjamin Bryant
14.5K connections
MLMisha Leybovich
Founder at Adsmith.ai
31.5K connections