# Suresh Mathew

> Suresh Mathew is the founder and CEO of Sedai, an autonomous cloud optimization company. A former PayPal architect with earlier experience at Oracle and Nokia, he built Sedai with former colleague Benji Thomas to reduce repetitive infrastructure work. His public interviews describe the technical challenge of safe autonomy and his own transition from engineer to customer-focused founder.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Sedai
- **Organizations:** Sedai, PayPal, Nokia, Oracle, HCL Technologies
- **Education:** Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala
- **Known for:** Co-built an autonomous infrastructure system at PayPal with Benji Thomas; Norwest reported more than two million autonomous remediations annually in 2022., Founded and leads Sedai, which announced a $20 million Series B in June 2025., Sedai’s current official biography credits the company with eight U.S. patents and a global team exceeding 100 employees.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2008** — Worked in engineering roles at HCL Technologies, Oracle, and Nokia; the sequence is reported in public professional biographies.
- **2008-2019** — Worked at PayPal, including as Senior MTS Architect; dates are reported by The Org and public professional-history listings.
- **2017** — Published Autoscaling Applications @ PayPal in The PayPal Technology Blog.
- **2019-2020** — Transitioned from PayPal to building Sedai with Benji Thomas. Accounts differ on the exact founding year; no single year is asserted here.
- **2022** — Sedai announced a $15 million Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners and plans for an R&D and product engineering division in Thiruvananthapuram.
- **2024** — Discussed buyer feedback and Sedai’s expansion from Lambda into ECS in a Sagetap interview.
- **2025** — Sedai announced a $20 million Series B led by AVP on June 12.
- **2026** — Published his perspective on AI-era SaaS economics and discussed cloud and AI engineering with guests on 1 IDEA.

## Achievements

- Co-built an autonomous infrastructure system at PayPal with Benji Thomas; Norwest reported more than two million autonomous remediations annually in 2022.
- Founded and leads Sedai, which announced a $20 million Series B in June 2025.
- Sedai’s current official biography credits the company with eight U.S. patents and a global team exceeding 100 employees.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Appeared in an October 12 TFiR interview discussing AI model routing, token economics, and measuring productivity through products delivered to customers.
- **2026-04** — Hosted Sedai distinguished engineer Pooja Malik on 1 IDEA to discuss GPU optimization for Kubernetes, in an episode dated April 2.
- **2026-03** — Published How to Survive the Death of SaaS on March 13, arguing for autonomy across pricing, infrastructure, and engineering work.

## Links

- Website: https://sedai.io/blog/author/suresh-mathew
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sureshmathew/

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