Nainika S. | Leland

Nainika Sudheendra

Studied at Schwarzman Scholarship

Hiring Manager at Mithril Technologies

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Work Experience

Chief Operating Officer

Mithril Technologies

March 2025 - Present

Hiring Manager

Executed everything non-engineering: applications to incubators, government/defense opportunities, SBIR/STTR grants, designed pitch decks, delivered pitches, managed investor relations, helped to recruit and build the advisory board, managed academic partnerships and authorships.

AI Implementation Lead

Magellan Jets

January 2025 - August 2025

Built AI agents on Synthesia, ChatGPT, and Claude to train and optimize all departments of the company, from HR to flight operations, reducing training time by up to 7 weeks and enabling 38% reduction in errors from baseline. Also implemented workflows on Zapier/n8n to reduce processing time from days to minutes across platforms.

Analyst and Scout

GLIN Impact Investment

July 2024 - September 2024

Schwarzman Scholar

Schwarzman Scholars

August 2023 - October 2024

Thesis: Space Insurance as a Diplomat in US-China Relations (featured on Sinica podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kaiserkuo_this-week-on-the-sinica-podcast-i-chat-with-activity-7242554867699904513-XvDm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) Degree: Global Affairs.

Intern

Shield AI

June 2023 - August 2023

Senior Automation Engineer

Walmart

May 2020 - May 2023

Interviewer

Was one of the first 3 hires to the drone delivery and autonomous vehicle team, headed ground-based delivery robotics and supported the drone and EV/AV team with lobbying, real estate, finance, marketing, project/product/program management, and legal, with the aid of specialized in-house teams for all of the above functions. Prior to that, I worked my way up from Manager I on the ground delivery network optimization team, implementing Blue Yonder to inform the development of the new Walmart Management System.