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Suresh Mathew
Founder & CEO
Bio
Suresh Mathew is the CEO & Founder of Sedai. As a key architect at PayPal, Suresh built the world’s first autonomous system for optimizing the cloud. Now at Sedai, he works with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to optimize their cloud & AI infrastructure, using Sedai’s autonomous platform. Under Suresh’s leadership, Sedai has expanded to a team of 100+ employees around the globe, received eight U.S. patents on its technology, and secured funding from top investment firms.
Suresh brings more than two decades of engineering and leadership experience, including at Oracle, Nokia, and PayPal. His mission is to eliminate toil for his fellow engineers, so they can focus on the most meaningful work.
Areas of Expertise
- Cloud optimization
- Kubernetes
- AI Strategy
- Autonomous systems
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