I'm Vamsi Kurama, CEO and co-founder of Plane, a software engineer, product designer, and open source entrepreneur.

From my early years, I've been an advocate for teaching people how to program using Python. Later, I developed a passion for web development and building product-scale machine learning models. Open source software has been a significant influence and inspiration for me, enabling every single one of my fleeting interests and long-term passions in software.

Previously, I co-founded Caravel, a consulting firm specializing in AI and scale engineering, helping dozens of startups and enterprises build and scale their tech businesses to millions of users. I also served as the CTO of Soulpage IT Solutions. Much of Caravel was built on and powered by open source software, and it was exciting to scale our clients' businesses to tens of millions of users globally using open frameworks, models, standards, and software.

After being involved in numerous projects, writing tons of code, and managing multiple teams at various organizations, I realized the importance of driving teams to be progress-oriented rather than just focusing on productivity. This realization led to the birth of Plane, an open source project management tool. Plane is evolving into a work management platform that helps all kinds of individuals and teams. Today, Plane is used by a wide range of customers, from solo indie game developers to some of the largest automotive and software companies, making itself as the backbone to build dreams and make progress.

In my free time, I enjoy tinkering with my open source projects, writing, reading, producing music, and exploring random math problems.