Preethi Kasireddy

Preethi Kasireddy is an American software engineer and blockchain enthusiast. She is based in Los Angeles, California​.

Kasireddy is originally from Monroe, New Jersey​. She attended the University of Southern California​ and earned a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering and a minor in Business in 2012. Throughout college, she had a high GPA (graduating with a 3.97) and was active in a number of groups on campus including the South Asian Rural Student Aid (VP of Finance), National Engineering Honors Society (Executive Board Member for USC Chapter), Industrial Engineering Honors Society (Alpha Pi Mu of Vice President), Trojan Investment Society (Mentor), Society of Women Engineers, Peer Health Educator, and Joint Educational Program (Teacher).

Upon graduating from college, Kasireddy became an Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs​. A year later, she joined Andreessen Horowitz​ as a Partner and led pitch meetings, worked with General Partners, and led a metrics driven initiative of measuring success. She left her position at Andreessen Horowitz in order to learn how to code and enrolled in Hacker Reactor.After brief stint at Socket.io, Kasireddy joined Coinbase​ as a Software Engineer. She left Coinbase in 2017 to start Sapien AI, an Artificial inteligence​ startup that utilizes machine learning and NLP to build chatbots. In addition, she is a blockchain developer and designs and implements Ethereum-based smart contracts for token sales.

On November 19th, 2017, Preethi published a Medium​ post about leaving Silicon Valley​ for Los Angeles, California​. Although she is thankful for the opportunities she had and the connections she made, she criticized Silicon Valley for becoming an area of Group think​ and that technological innovation, especially in blockchain​, was not centralized in Silicon Valley but happening in cities worldwide. Preethi chose to move to Los Angeles because of it's proximity to Silicon Valley, the booming tech scene in the city, the weather, and the diversity of people that inhabit the city.