Venkatesha Matam

Hey, I'm Venky — a software engineer based in NYC, currently building at Parkday . I care about making things that quietly improve people's lives. The kind of software that feels obvious once it's there.

Before Parkday, I was at Siglens and Koch Industries . I earned my Master's in Software Engineering from Northeastern , where I spent a lot of time building systems, contributing to open-source, and helping lead a 1,000+ person team that ran full-stack residential operations as a supervising leader at Northeastern Housing & Residential Life . Undergrad was in electronics — more hardware than I expected, but it taught me how to think.

These days, I work almost entirely in AI — building and scaling systems that power agents, workflows, and multi-modal interfaces. Most of my time goes into stitching together models, memory, reasoning layers, and real-time infra to make intelligence feel practical. I spend a lot of time watching early-stage products take shape — how they're built, how they're funded, and how small teams move quickly with just enough structure to stay in control. There's something about that early momentum — the clarity, the urgency, the sheer focus — that keeps pulling me in.

The AI ecosystem in 2025 feels like electricity in the air — agentic infra, orchestration stacks, billion-dollar seed rounds, and five-person teams pushing the edges of what's possible. I try to stay close to that current. Not just the hype, but the work behind it — the taste, the velocity, the quiet confidence. I'm drawn to problems that don't have obvious answers, and to the people who are okay living in that uncertainty.

Outside of work, I like ideas that go deep. I'm into long-form podcasts, messy questions, late-night threads, and anything that makes me pause and think a little harder. I swim when I can — mostly for the splash. I'm into clear thinking, honest people, and the kind of moments that catch you off guard and stay with you.