---
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) with performance-based vesting tied to market cap milestones. His compensation structure mirrors the co-founder allocation terms with linear unlocks beginning at $500M market cap and full unlock at $5B, with a 4-year cliff starting November 2028.

## 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 to October 16

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

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