Chaitanya is a Dual Degree graduate from the Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Madras and is part of the leadership team at YNOS Venture Engine, a startup building products for early-stage entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and other ecosystem players. He played a prominent role in architecting, developing & deploying the technology stack & the intelligence engine of YNOS and is one of the key contributors in building YNOS's scalable Machine Learning algorithms for semantic search, identifying right-investors, estimating valuation, discovering similar startups and so on. His skillset includes Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Web-development, Database & Server management, and Systems architecture. He is also an active open-source contributor, with some of his Python packages crossing 30k downloads in total. At CREST, he currently leads the technology team in developing the data repository on the Indian Start-Up and Venture Capital ecosystem.

Satyam has earned Bachelors' and Masters' in Computer Science and Engineering. Subsequently he worked as a faculty member in Presidency University, Bangalore for 2 years where he taught Python, Data analysis, Machine Learning to the undergraduate students. His areas of interests include data analysis and machine learning. As a Data Scientist at CREST, he is involved in data acquisition, processing, and management. Part of his activity would involve developing customized tools for data acquisition.