Neel Shanmugam

Co-founder, COO

Neel Shanmugam is a co-founder and COO of Cluely, focusing on creating the final experience layer for AI since April 2025. Additionally, Neel serves as co-founder and CTO at Interview Coder, working to improve technical interviews. Previous roles include prompt engineer and ML intern at Rilla, where responsibilities included writing prompts and designing AI systems, and full stack engineer at Columbia Build Lab, where Neel contributed to the development of an MVP for a financial data analytics platform. Work experience also includes a commercial operations and sales internship at SpringWorks Therapeutics, product engineering and marketing intern at Avo, and multiple research roles at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the University of North Texas. Neel founded Gymless.io in April 2020 and holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University, with education completed at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science and Plano East Sr High School.

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