About

Mahesh Tiyyagura is a technology enthusiast and an entrepreneurial leader with over 17 years of experience in building and mentoring world-class engineering teams and cultures. He is currently the SVP of Engineering at Medable, Inc, where he is responsible for hiring the best talent in software, data, and DevOps to digitize clinical trials. His expertise lies in developing software that enables efficient clinical research, effective healthcare delivery, precise and predictive medicine. Mahesh has a strong belief in businesses that truly leverage technology and data to disrupt markets. He is a curious and up-to-date technologist who attends and presents talks in conferences. He strikes a great balance between scope, time to market, and quality of the product. He has a proven track record of attracting, mentoring, and retaining world-class engineering teams and cultures. Mahesh has varied experiences across the full engineering stack, including Hack, Math, ML/AI, Web scale compute, Big data, Cloud-native, Good Software, Managing People, Business of tech, Scaling with Vendors, Tech Hiring, and B2B SaaS. He has worked with companies such as Yahoo!, Namshi, HackerRank, and Homeshop18, where he has built data-driven merchandising solutions, improved supply chain tech, increased granularity of costs, and achieved very high uptime. Mahesh has a Master's degree in Maths and Scientific Computing from IIT and an Executive Management degree in Strategic R&D Management from INSEAD. He is skilled in DevOps, AI, Research Scientist, CI/CD, Big Data, ML, Web, test, Senior Software Engineer, and QA.