Deedy Das is a partner at Menlo Ventures investing in AI, infrastructure, and enterprise software. Before investing, he worked on search at Google and on Glean’s founding team, where he helped build the company’s AI assistant. He also publishes practical software projects and writing.[1][2]
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Das’s 2016 CV records work on Facebook place-search ranking and Google query understanding. Menlo’s biography describes his later progression at Glean from engineer to engineering manager and creator and product lead of Glean Assistant. That background connects his investing interests to the practical work of retrieving information and turning it into a product people use. He holds a BS and MEng in computer science from Cornell, with completion dates of May and December 2014 in his CV.[1][3]
Contributions
Files through a camera
QRFerry transfers a file from one screen to another device’s camera using animated QR codes. Both sides run in the browser; the file does not pass through an application server. Error-correcting symbols allow the receiver to miss or reorder frames and still recover the file after collecting enough data. Checksums verify the result before saving it. The repository documents hardware-dependent modes rather than promising a fixed transfer speed on every camera.[4]
Small tools with inspectable source
Das’s projects also include Deedy Resumé, a two-column LaTeX template. It packages a common professional task as source that someone can edit for their own material. His personal site links other experiments and writing on technology, careers, and investing, giving readers both an account of his professional work and smaller artifacts they can try directly.[2][5]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
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QRFerry
github.comBrowser-to-browser file transfer through animated QR frames, error recovery, and whole-file verification.
Try a small non-sensitive file between a laptop and a phone, then read how missing QR frames are recovered. No AI background is required; camera permissions and keeping the code steady matter.
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Writing, research & talks
OpenRouter's New Defaults episode with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures on inference economics: token prices down 40 percent while usage grew fourfold, why optimizing cost too early backfires, and why serious AI products end up spanning multiple models.
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