# Hriday Sheth

> Eng @Zip | Berkeley EECS | Prev @MongoDB @Datadog @Workday

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hridaysheth

All things software & startups.

X: @hridonculous

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Zip
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
ERP Integrations
We're Hiring!

### Managing Partner — SF/West @ Dorm Room Fund
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
The original student-run venture fund, DRF is backed by a16z, First Round, Floodgate, etc.. Over $1B+ in value has been created by DRF portfolio companies.

Investments include Genia (led investment), Gamefort (led investment), Vanilla AI, Talsey AI, Kura, Mobius, Kura, Neutrino

hriday@dormroomfund.com

### Investment Partner @ Dorm Room Fund
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Project Manager & Consultant @ Berkeley Business Society
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, California, United States
Spring 2025: Consultant for Cochlear
Fall 2024: Case Advisor for Nielsen
Fall 2023: Project Manager for Adidas
Fall 2022: Senior Consultant for TikTok
Spring 2022: Consultant for Microsoft

### Accel Scholar @ Accel
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
Accel Scholar, Class of 2025 (1 of 32 selected students, <6% acceptance rate)

### Software Engineering Intern @ MongoDB
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
• Refactored Network Interface TL, the state machine managing egress networking in MongoDB’s C++ database server; the component will be part of the critical path for every MongoDB request for v9.0 and onward
• Heavily relied on asynchronous programming primitives (futures and promises) and synchronization primitives (mutexes) to write concurrent code; leveraged core dumps/GDB, thread sanitizers (TSan), and logs to debug code
• Deprecated and deleted features including hedged reads and opportunistic secondary targeting

### Research Assistant @ Berkeley RISE Lab
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Helping develop SkyPilot, a framework for easily and cost-effectively running ML workloads across clouds
• Reduced the failover time for provisioning attempts in AWS and GCP by 97% (30 seconds to <1 second) by querying the resource quota before attempting provision
• Added the default installation of an Nginx Ingress Controller when using a local Kubernetes cluster via SkyPilot
• Implementing disk cache when mounting cloud storage to a cluster via SkyPilot

### Director @ Free Ventures
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
Free Ventures is UC Berkeley's leading pre-seed startup accelerator. Our 80+ alumni teams have raised over $200 million from top firms such as Y Combinator, Greylock, KPCB, and Accel.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Datadog
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
• Wrote integrations enabling Datadog users to monitor data pipelines using Amazon SQS and Python/Java services via the new Data Streams Monitoring (DSM) product 
• Integrations are part of Datadog's open-source Python (10M+ downloads/month) and Java tracer libraries and included in Datadog's public-facing documentation
• Worked directly with Datadog customers in order to launch the integrations, including a Fortune 100 manufacturing company and two Series B startups

### Software Engineer Intern @ Workday
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Pleasanton, California, United States
Automations within the core financial team (FINCORE).

### Co-Founder @ Hireglyph @ Berkeley SkyDeck
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Built an online interview preparation platform with 1400+ users using a React-Redux-Firebase stack. Managed a newsletter with 2000+ subscribers.
• Developed partnerships with student-run clubs at universities including Michigan, Columbia, USC, and more.
• Accepted into the Berkeley SkyDeck HotDesk (<8% acceptance) and Harvard i-Labs Venture Program incubators.


## Education
### B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
University of California, Berkeley

### B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
UC Berkeley College of Engineering

### High School Diploma
Granada High School (Livermore, CA)

### Las Positas College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hridonculous

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Last updated: 2026-04-11