---
type: entity
entity_type: person
name: "Advaith Sekharan"
domain: internet-finance
status: active
role: "Founding Engineer at MetaDAO"
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---

# Advaith Sekharan

## Overview
Advaith Sekharan is a founding engineer at MetaDAO, hired in October 2024 with $180,000 annual salary and 237 META tokens (1% of supply). His compensation includes performance-based token unlocks tied to market cap milestones, with full unlock at $5B market cap and a 4-year vesting period starting November 2024.

## Timeline
- **2024-10-22** — [[metadao-hire-advaith-sekharan]] proposed: $180K salary + 237 META tokens with performance vesting
- **2024-10-26** — Hiring proposal passed; joined as founding engineer with retroactive salary from October 16

## Relationship to KB
- [[metadao]] — founding engineer
- Part of MetaDAO's San Francisco core team buildout per Fundraise #2 strategy

## Links
- [GitHub](https://github.com/advaith101)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/advaith-sekharan-78b52b277/)