Before 3rd Meridian, Jishnu Kunal Vutukuru and Christie Mathews spent three years building electric racing motorcycles at Manipal Institute of Technology. A 20-person team took two bikes from design to the track. The hard part was rarely one drawing or one calculation. It was keeping decisions, dependencies, files, and people aligned as the design changed.
That experience shaped our starting point: engineering software should carry more of the coordination burden. Jishnu brings a mechanical engineering and product background. Christie brings software and security experience from Palo Alto Networks. Together, we are building systems that help engineering teams see what changed, understand what it affects, and move the work forward with the right context.
Across 45 conversations with engineers and leaders in aerospace and automotive, the same problem kept appearing: teams were manually reconciling changes across design tools, simulation, email, and documents. We are building 3rd Meridian to make that coordination visible, traceable, and easier to act on. We are pre-launch, with no customers, revenue, or pilots.