KUMAR SIDDHARTHA

Kumar Siddhartha is the Co-founder of Merlin, a venture-backed enterprise SaaS startup, and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in computer science from BITS Pilani and has spent over 12 years building scalable technology products for various software startups. Siddhartha previously served as the second software engineer at Swiggy in India, where he contributed to the early technical infrastructure of a food delivery platform that eventually reached a peak valuation exceeding $10 billion. Following his tenure there, he co-founded Index, a technology company that operated independently until it was successfully acquired in 2021. Drawing upon his extensive background in logistics technology and software engineering, Siddhartha now focuses on developing specialized enterprise resource planning software designed to streamline complex operations within the broader United States commercial construction industry.