---
type: entity
entity_type: person
name: "Advaith Sekharan"
domain: internet-finance
status: active
roles: ["founding engineer"]
affiliations: ["[[metadao]]"]
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---

# Advaith Sekharan

## Overview
Advaith Sekharan is a founding engineer at MetaDAO, hired in October 2024 through a futarchy-governed proposal. His compensation package includes $180,000 annual salary and 237 META tokens (1% of supply) with performance-based unlocking tied to market cap milestones and a 4-year vesting period.

## Timeline
- **2024-10-22** — [[metadao-hire-advaith-sekharan]] proposal created to hire as founding engineer
- **2024-10-26** — Hiring proposal passed; joined MetaDAO with retroactive salary from October 16th

## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] — founding engineer
- [[metadao-hire-advaith-sekharan]] — hiring decision
- Part of MetaDAO's San Francisco core team building strategy per Fundraise #2