Aditya Maru: Co-founder and director at Blacksmith Software

About Aditya Maru

Aditya Maru co-founded Blacksmith in 2024 with Aditya Jayaprakash and Aayush Shah.

He was an early engineer at Cockroach Labs, where he worked on the core database team and on CockroachDB's data distribution and disaster recovery systems.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Aditya Maru in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Blacksmith Software Inc. Current

Co-founder and director

2024 – Present · New York, NY

Blacksmith runs engineering teams' GitHub Actions jobs on its own bare-metal servers, with CI monitoring and a coding agent that fixes failed builds.

Cockroach Labs

Engineer

Education

University of Waterloo

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Aditya Maru works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Blacksmith Software Inc. · Form D, Aug 19, 2026

Erik Nordlander

Director

Aayush Shah

Co-founder and director

Aditya Jayaprakash

Co-founder & CEO, director

Aditya Maru in the News

Oct 21, 2026·EntrackrBlacksmith raises $66 Mn at $1 Bn valuation led by Sequoia
Aug 13, 2026·EntrackrAI code testing platform Blacksmith raises $45 Mn in Series B led by Peak XV
Sep 17, 2025·TechCrunchGoogle Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round