UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab

Networking strategies and career advice with Anish Kamtam

Sohan and Anish continued their discussion on professional networking and career growth. Anish initially shared details about his experience meeting founders in organic settings, like airplanes and coffee shops, to emphasize the importance of visibility. He provided Sohan with several LinkedIn profiles for active hiring leads—including companies Justiguide (immigration tech), a fashion/plastic surgery tech startup, and teams involving Nishkarsh Srivastava, Andrew Israel, and Varun Vummadi. Sohan asked for advice on standing out in professional DMs, prompting Anish to share several successful outreach templates. These included a screenshot of a conversation with a researcher (Dingqi Zhang) regarding drone control papers and text templates for reaching out to researchers and mentors at institutions like UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab and Letta. Anish’s templates emphasized tailoring experience to the recipient’s specific work, such as ML systems, edge cloud inference, and autonomous UAV operations. The conversation concluded with a follow-up on a previous interaction with a contact at Visa named Murch. Anish clarified that Murch was discussing a "revenue per employee" metric within a team of 80 people at Visa that generated $100 million, rather than a personal startup. Anish encouraged Sohan to reach out to Murch regardless for general career advice and startup connections, which Sohan agreed to do on January 12, 2026.