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# Animesh Sharma on Tal

## Headline

Chief of Staff at Gradly

## About

I've spent the last 5\+ years at Gradly — a health insurance startup for international students in the US — going from solo founding engineer to Chief of Staff\. I started by building the company's entire backend from scratch\. As Gradly grew, so did my scope: I led engineering as a team, built out our claims and payments infrastructure, shipped an AI\-powered support system, and integrated a handful of insurance carrier partners\. Along the way I picked up whatever the company needed — EDI standards in a week, sales strategy, partnerships, fundraising, hiring\. Today I sit next to the CEO on company strategy and partnerships while still owning Product, Engineering, and Operations end\-to\-end\. I like ambiguous, ground\-zero problems — the kind where you're building the process as much as the product\. Technical enough to build it myself, operational enough to run the business around it\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

grok

langchain

## Work experience

Chief of Staff at Gradly, May 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos, ◦ CEO's direct proxy on company strategy, partnerships, and legal/administrative work; own Product/Engineering, Operations, and Customer Success end\-to\-end ◦ Designed and launched a customer referral/reward program that grew the customer base without added acquisition spend ◦ Manage a 10\-person team \(engineering, design, support, marketing, growth\); led 30\+ interviews, hired 8

Software Engineer → Product Lead at Gradly, Feb 2023 \- May 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos, ◦ Grew engineering from a solo function into a 5–6 person team as Tech Lead/Product Lead, owning architecture, hiring, and execution ◦ Built dashboard\.gradly\.us — sales analytics, customer lifecycle tracking, policy administration, multi\-provider payments \(Stripe, Square, Mercury\) ◦ Led the customer\-facing product suite \(gradly\.us, insurance\.gradly\.us, app\.gradly\.us\); migrated React to Next\.js, built a new design system ◦ Architected the AI Insurance Concierge — a RAG system drafting context\-aware replies across email, WhatsApp, SMS, and live chat with human\-in\-the\-loop review; built an AI auto\-tagging system for support routing ◦ Learned EDI standards in under a week; built automated EDI infrastructure for SisCo and FivePoints with zero production issues ◦ Built Gradly's claims platform \(submission/processing/status APIs, OpenAI\-powered PDF extraction, Mercury ACH reimbursements\); integrated 5 insurance carriers ◦ Built Gradly's mobile app \(React Native\) — insurance document access, provider lookup, claims management, premium payments, in\-app support

Independent Contractor \| Software Engineer at Gradly, Jul 2021 \- Feb 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos, ◦ Joined as Gradly's sole engineer; built the company's entire core backend, including first partner integrations \(GBG, WellAway\) ◦ Built an early AI Q&A prototype \(LLM over insurance plan brochures\), later productionized ◦ Laid the technical foundation that later grew into broader ownership of product, internal systems, and automation at Gradly ◦ Built data workflows for reporting, sales operations, CRM updates, and internal tracking, turning repeated manual tasks into lightweight, repeatable tools ◦ Worked across engineering, sales, and operations to identify bottlenecks and ship practical fixes ◦ Built scheduled jobs, scrapers, and backend automations \(Python, Zapier, Firebase Cloud Functions\), reducing manual data collection and improving access to internal business data

## Education

Master of Computer Applications \- MCA, Computer Science, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore

Bachelor of Computer Application \- BCA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/animesh\-algorithm
- leetcode: https://leetcode\.com/animesh\_algorithm
- animesh\.cc: https://animesh\.cc/

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