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Neel Shanmugam

COO @ Cluely | Z-Fellow | Columbia dropout

New York, New York

Work Experience

2025

  • Co-Founder, COO

    2025

  • Co-Founder, CTO

    2024

    Fixing technical interviews

2024 - 2024

  • Prompt Engineer and ML Intern

    2024 - 2024

    Writing cool prompts and designing AI systems!

2023 - 2023

  • Full Stack Engineer

    2023 - 2023

    Built MVP for financial data analytics platform.

  • Commercial Operations and Sales Intern

    2023 - 2023

    Led digital customer engagement initiatives.

2022 - 2023

  • Product Engineering and Marketing Intern

    2022 - 2023

    Spearheaded data-driven marketing campaign.

  • Computational Biology Undergraduate Researcher

    2022 - 2023

    Developed computational pipeline for rapidly designing mutation-resistant antiviral therapeutics.

  • President

    2020 - 2022

    Helped students find research opportunities.

  • Computational Biochemistry Undergraduate Researcher

    2020 - 2022

    I developed scripts and prepared systems for molecular dynamics simulations to evaluate three inhibitors as treatment for the PARP-1 (a human enzyme) V762A cancer variant. I examined simulation results using trajectory and electron decomposition analysis along with statistical tests and designed visual representations to effectively highlight results. I identified key residues and evaluated functionality of PARP-1 inhibitors, allowing drug designers to engineer more effective medicines that save more lives.

  • Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Researcher

    2020 - 2022

    I created Abraham model equations to predict solute transfer into environmentally-friendly solvents by analyzing volumetric and spectrophotometric measurements. I calculated enthalpies of vaporization and sublimation for 33 alkynes coated with squalene and apiezon L stationary phases with linear free-energy relationships.

  • Early Summer Research Student

    2020 - 2020

    I analyzed optical brain imaging data collected during an economic experimental paradigm to evaluate the interaction between decision-making and emotions. Additionally, I quantified human perception of decision-making process with Likert scale responses.

2020 - 2020

  • Founder

    2020 - 2020