
For more than two decades, Sandeep Yeole has worked where complicated systems meet ordinary people. At Lumber, the security-and-fintech veteran is helping construction payroll feel less like a puzzle and more like a service.

The Lumber co-founder spent years turning project constraints into software. Now he is applying that habit to construction payroll, where every union rule, timecard and job site can change the answer.

She grew up watching construction paperwork consume the people doing it. Now the two-time founder is building Trayd around a stubborn idea: the back office should work as precisely as the jobsite.
Shreesha Ramdas is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lumber (LumberFi Inc.), an AI-first construction workforce management platform that automates payroll, time tracking, HR, safety, and compliance for specialty contractors. A serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded Strikedeck (acquired by Medallia) and LeadFormix (acquired by SAP/CallidusCloud), Ramdas deliberately pivoted from serving Silicon Valley to digitizing one of the most labor-intensive and underserved industries in America. Under his leadership, Lumber raised $21M in total funding, acquired BuilderFax, and is building autonomous AI agents to handle everything from prevailing wage audits to paper timecard digitization.