# My CV

> Sandeep Mallareddy: global EdTech leader, three-time founder, and startup operator with 20 years in education and technology. Built ventures from zero to $500K ARR, raised $2M, hired 300+, and led teams across 8 countries.

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  <h1 class="cv-name">Sandeep Mallareddy</h1>
  <p class="cv-role"><b>Global EdTech</b> · Entrepreneur · 3&times; Founder · Operator</p>
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    <div class="cv-stat"><span class="num">20</span><span class="lbl">Years</span></div>
    <div class="cv-stat"><span class="num">3&times;</span><span class="lbl">Founder</span></div>
    <div class="cv-stat"><span class="num">$2M</span><span class="lbl">Raised</span></div>
    <div class="cv-stat"><span class="num">$750K</span><span class="lbl">ARR Built</span></div>
    <div class="cv-stat"><span class="num">300+</span><span class="lbl">Hired</span></div>
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  <p class="cv-lede">Operator and three time founder with close to twenty years in education and technology. I started in a research lab, spent two years teaching, and have built and run companies ever since. I raise capital, hire and lead large teams, own the P&amp;L, and take products from a first idea to paying customers, in both D2C and B2B. I usually build the first version myself before I hand it off.</p>
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    <li>Leadership &amp; Team Building</li><li>People &amp; Culture</li><li>Coaching &amp; Mentoring</li><li>Strategy</li><li>Go-to-Market (D2C &amp; B2B)</li><li>Sales &amp; Customer Success</li><li>Fundraising</li><li>P&amp;L Ownership</li><li>Hiring at Scale</li><li>Operations</li><li>New Market Entry</li><li>EdTech</li><li>Forecasting</li><li>AI Tooling</li>
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  <h2 class="cv-lbl">Experience</h2>
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    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">GSV Ventures</span><span class="dt">Nov 2024 – Present</span></div><p class="ro">Global EdTech Lead</p><p class="blurb">Lead global EdTech programming and summit operations for GSV Ventures and the ASU+GSV Summit, the largest gathering in education with 7,000 leaders each year.</p>
      <ul class="bullets"><li>Ran the 2025 ASU+GSV and Emeritus India Summit end to end: the largest in three years, profitable at double digit margins, NPS of 70</li><li>Own all global EdTech programming for the 2026 Summit, including the GSV Cup startup competition</li><li>Co-run the GSV 150, the annual list of the strongest private education companies worldwide</li><li>Built internal AI tools and automations that cut repetitive work across the team</li></ul>
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    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">English Quest</span><span class="dt">Apr 2021 – Present</span></div><p class="ro">Co-Founder and COO (2021–2025), Board Member (2025–Present)</p><p class="blurb">Co-founded a company that teaches spoken English on basic smartphones in low income markets. Grew it from nothing to a profitable business across 8 countries.</p>
      <ul class="bullets"><li>Built two businesses from scratch: a D2C product at $500K ARR and a B2B SaaS product at $250K ARR</li><li>Grew D2C revenue from zero to $500K ARR in two years, holding CAC under $35, with half of new users from referrals</li><li>Pivoted to B2B, sold to schools directly, and reached $250K ARR in two years</li><li>Hired and trained more than 300 people across sales, customer success, and operations</li><li>Raised $2M from venture funds, impact investors, and angels</li><li>Won a $100K Emergent Ventures grant from the Mercatus Center</li></ul>
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    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">Lido</span><span class="dt">Jun 2019 – Apr 2021</span></div><p class="ro">VP, Tutor Operations and Founding Team</p><p class="blurb">Early employee at an online tutoring startup. Ran customer success and tutor operations, and owned parts of pricing, product, and learning design.</p>
      <ul class="bullets"><li>Built the customer success function and grew it from zero to 5,000 families</li><li>Raised new hire sales efficiency 48% with tech enabled training</li><li>Hired and trained more than 1,200 tutors a quarter across four subjects</li><li>Cut tutor pay costs 33%, over $100K saved in one quarter, by testing pricing and staffing</li><li>Piloted a new Coding category and improved the in-house virtual classroom and gamification</li><li>Lifted NPS above 50 and brought quarterly churn under 5%</li></ul>
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    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">NewGlobe (Bridge International Academies)</span><span class="dt">May 2017 – Jun 2019</span></div><p class="ro">Director, Academics</p><p class="blurb">Ran academics for six schools in the largest chain of low cost private primary schools in the world, working closely with state governments and a global research team.</p>
      <ul class="bullets"><li>Managed a team of 20 across six schools</li><li>Opened two new schools from scratch; for the Chittoor launch, hired 16 teachers and enrolled 200 students in year one</li><li>Hired 300 teachers across 13 districts in Andhra Pradesh in three weeks</li><li>Ran "Teacher Observation and Feedback" workshops for 600 government education officers</li></ul>
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    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">GEMS Education</span><span class="dt">Oct 2015 – May 2016</span></div><p class="ro">Team Lead, Education Research and Innovation</p><p class="blurb">Ran an internal research and innovation unit. Wrote the Schools of the Future framework for the Dubai Museum of the Future and shaped four new business ideas.</p></div>
    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">Gray Matters India</span><span class="dt">Aug 2014 – Sep 2015</span></div><p class="ro">Manager, Value Creation</p><p class="blurb">Ran large assessments and impact studies reaching 20,000 students, and set up the first impact evaluation of India's public private partnership schools.</p></div>
    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">Thermax Social Initiatives Foundation</span><span class="dt">May 2013 – Oct 2015</span></div><p class="ro">Consultant, Impact and Program Manager</p><p class="blurb">Built the Kaizen monitoring system and ran a controlled study on English learning across 30 Pune city schools, which fed into policy affecting 16,000 students.</p></div>
    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">Gray Matters Capital Foundation</span><span class="dt">Jun 2012 – May 2013</span></div><p class="ro">Analyst</p><p class="blurb">Built 10 product lines and an automated school rating tool for the Affordable Private Schools program, along with the framework to analyze the sector.</p></div>
    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">Teach For India</span><span class="dt">May 2010 – Apr 2012</span></div><p class="ro">Fellow</p><p class="blurb">Taught 2nd and 3rd grade in a low income school. Raised math scores from 28% to 68% and reading by 1.5 grade levels. Won the Design for Change contest.</p></div>
    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">Nixvector Tech</span><span class="dt">Jan 2009 – Jul 2010</span></div><p class="ro">Co-Founder and Product Engineer</p><p class="blurb">Co-founded a small web development firm. Led a team of four building software for the West African Examinations Council and an Italian media company.</p></div>
    <div class="job"><div class="job-top"><span class="co">University of Kentucky</span><span class="dt">2006 – 2008</span></div><p class="ro">Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant</p><p class="blurb">Taught undergraduate biology labs and ran molecular genetics research on telomere position effect in Aspergillus nidulans. The work was published in Microbiology in 2010.</p></div>
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  <h2 class="cv-lbl">Speaking</h2>
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    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head">WISE Summit, Doha <span class="role-inline">Workshop Lead</span></div><div class="yr">2017</div><div class="desc">Led the workshop "Improving Lesson Design Through Data-Driven Feedback" at the World Innovation Summit for Education (Qatar Foundation), a flagship global gathering of around 2,000 education leaders and policymakers.</div></div>
    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head">CIES, San Francisco <span class="role-inline">Presenter</span></div><div class="yr">2019</div><div class="desc">Presented research on using e-readers and interactive read-alouds to build literacy in sub-Saharan Africa at the Comparative and International Education Society conference, the largest international education research meeting.</div></div>
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  <h2 class="cv-lbl">Ventures</h2>
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    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head">nixPOS</div><div class="yr">2016 – 2017</div><div class="desc">Point of sale software I designed and built single-handedly for a specialty Italian restaurant chain. Deployed across four locations and still in use today.</div></div>
    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head">Testbridge</div><div class="yr">2016 – 2017</div><div class="desc">Crowdsourced assessment and analytics software for K-12 classrooms. Built the MVP and ran early customer conversations.</div></div>
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  <h2 class="cv-lbl">Education</h2>
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    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head">University of Kentucky, <span class="role-inline">M.S. Biology</span></div><div class="yr">2006 – 2008</div><div class="desc">GPA 4/4. American Society of Cell Biology, Kentucky Academy of Sciences.</div></div>
    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head">JNTU, <span class="role-inline">B.Tech Biotechnology</span></div><div class="yr">2002 – 2006</div><div class="desc">Ranked 3<sup>rd</sup> across the university.</div></div>
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  <h2 class="cv-lbl">Fellowships and Grants</h2>
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    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head"><a href="https://acumenacademy.org/fellowship/">Acumen</a>, <span class="role-inline">Fellow</span></div><div class="yr">2024 – Present</div><div class="desc">One of the 8 percent of applicants chosen for the social venture leadership program.</div></div>
    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head"><a href="https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures">Emergent Ventures</a>, <span class="role-inline">Grantee</span></div><div class="yr">2021 – Present</div><div class="desc">$100K grant for affordable English learning in South and Southeast Asia.</div></div>
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  <h2 class="cv-lbl">Publications and Research</h2>
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    <p class="pub">Telomere position effect is regulated by heterochromatin-associated proteins and NkuA in <em>Aspergillus nidulans</em>. <span class="venue">Microbiology, 2010.</span></p>
    <p class="pub">Using e-readers and interactive read-alouds to promote participatory learning and literacy in Lagos, Nigeria. <span class="venue">NewGlobe Learning Collaborative. A randomized controlled trial across 47 schools (641 students) showing a 0.2 SD gain in reading comprehension.</span></p>
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  <h2 class="cv-lbl">Honors and Awards</h2>
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    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head">Superforecaster, IARPA CREATE Program</div><div class="yr">2018, 2020</div><div class="desc">Chosen as a superforecaster for the US intelligence community's CREATE program, run by IARPA under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Forecast geopolitical, economic, and social outcomes worldwide, and finished in the top 10 for process gain in the Good Judgment Project 2.0 COVID-19 forecasting tournament.</div></div>
    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head">Kaggle, "Show of Hands" Competition</div><div class="yr">2014</div><div class="desc">Finished in the top 25 percent.</div></div>
    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head">Flora G. Ribble Scholarship</div><div class="yr">2007, 2008</div><div class="desc">Awarded twice by the Department of Biology, University of Kentucky.</div></div>
    <div class="entry"><div class="entry-head">Engineering Working Model Competition</div><div class="yr">2004</div><div class="desc">First place in Biotechnology for a process to produce ethanol.</div></div>
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  <h2 class="cv-lbl">Projects</h2>
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    <div class="proj"><p class="ptitle"><a href="https://github.com/sandeepmallareddy/reddit-news-generator">reddit-news-generator</a> <span class="plink">(<a href="https://socialnews.pages.dev/">live output</a>)</span></p><p class="stack">Python · OpenAI · Flask · Hugo</p><p class="pdesc">Pulls top posts from chosen subreddits, rewrites them as short articles with GPT-4o, makes an image for each, and outputs a ready to publish content folder. Ships with a small CMS to manage articles and prompts.</p></div>
    <div class="proj"><p class="ptitle"><a href="https://github.com/sandeepmallareddy/reddit-video">reddit-video</a> <span class="plink">(<a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jAi2v5gW0sw">sample short</a>)</span></p><p class="stack">Node.js · OpenAI · ElevenLabs · FFmpeg</p><p class="pdesc">Turns a single Reddit post into a vertical short video. Writes a script, makes a picture per scene, narrates with ElevenLabs, and builds a captioned MP4 with FFmpeg.</p></div>
    <div class="proj"><p class="ptitle"><a href="https://github.com/sandeepmallareddy/wa-cli-mcp">wa-cli-mcp</a></p><p class="stack">Node.js · Baileys · MCP</p><p class="pdesc">WhatsApp from the terminal or an AI assistant. Send, read, reply, react, forward, and run group operations as both a CLI and an MCP server. Built on Baileys, runs fully local.</p></div>
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  <h2 class="cv-lbl">Certifications</h2>
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    <p class="certs">MongoDB Node.js Developer Path <span class="y">(2023)</span><span class="mid">·</span>The Analytics Edge, edX <span class="y">(2014)</span><span class="mid">·</span>Data Analysis and Statistical Inference, Coursera <span class="y">(2014)</span></p>
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