About ME

Sagun Garg

Brief: CTO of Global Innovation Lab, 3 x Founder(15+ Yrs Serial Entrepreneur), 40+ Angel Investments, 2 x CTO-on-Hire, 3 x EIR, Hands on CTO, Singapore

Global Innovation Director - Technology & Engineering of Bank Julius Baer: Built 7+ products in AI/ML, Digital Assets and Private Banking: Role - Leading & Hiring Engineering teams for AI/ML products, managing budgets and advisor to senior Executive Board member alignments on deeptech products. Privacy engineering techniques for AI/ML products deployed On-Prem and Cloud hybrid architecture.
Founder3: 0Research.com - 3rd time Founder - Singapore, ML/AI Metadata catalog search i.e AI-SDK Devtool for 3Ds(Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Data Engineer) to view Live Data pipelines along with evolving Metadata across landscape of data objects
CTO-Advisor: Portcast.io - Predictive Data Intelligence(Maritime Supply Chain) - Helped Close Pre-Series A 3.2mn$ USD round after outgoing CTO/Cofounder decided to part ways with the Venture.
CTO-Advisor: Vanna - AI Automated Content Authoring (NLG) in Ed-Tech/Career-tech Startup - Helped Close Pre-Series A 1.1 mn$ USD round after outgoing CTO/Cofounder decided to part ways with the Venture
Entrepreneur in Residence: NEC Labs Solopreneur in Biotech Muscle Sensory Devices hardware platform for Medical Research Labs , NEC Labs (Accelerator) Singapore, ML/AI Technologies
Entrepreneur in Residence: Entrepreneur First External Co-Founder Entrepreneur First SG6 2019 - Singapore
Entrepreneur in Residence: Antler SG3 Graduated from Antler SG3 2019 - Singapore
StartUp School: Y Combinator SUS 2019
Co-Founder2: Nexchanges(Oyeok App) Price Discovery of Real Estate[Venture Funded $175k: 6yrs 2013-2019]
Co-Founder1: Black & White Aventura, PropTech End to End Portal, [BootStrapped GMV $100mn Cum - 9 yrs]
Competitions/hackathons: Won 6 of them till date Intel, Microsoft(Singapore), NEC Labs(Singapore), IBM, IIM-A, IIT-B, Web-Summit(Ireland)

Quick Check

Hands-on-CTO: Full Stack - Polyglot Programmer - Architect Experience
Responsible AI: Developing and deploying AI systems with a focus on ethical principles, accountability, and societal impact.
Innovation Architect: Driving the ideation, design, and implementation of cutting-edge AI solutions that create value while upholding ethical standards.
Enterprise Architect: Architecting AI systems that align with organizational strategies, ensuring scalability, security, and responsible governance.
Startup Speed: Hackathon style break fast, fail fast & launch embarassing products to pivot fast
Multi-Paradigm: Problem statement driven programming paradigm: functional, oops, imperative or hybrid
Product Management: Product Features, Roadmap, Design skills(UI-UX especially 0 to 1 MVPs)
B2B Enterprise Resilience: Enterprise resilience experience with fortune 500 customers operating across the Globe
B2C Scale: Experience architecting systems at consumer-facing internet-scale
Distributed Systems: built large distributed microservices platforms (polyglot)
Nine Nines Latenciesensuring 100ms P99 latencies
Event Driven Systems: Data engineering of AI/ML platforms with event driven needs
Big Data Analytics: billion+ new rows per hour streamed into data lakes
OLTP/OLAP DBs Handle evolving data tables of order of billion rows generated hourly

Keywords: Developer Portal, API Catalog, API Gateway, Kafka, Event-driven, Streaming, Kubernetes, Distributed Computing and Queuing

Leadership Experience

Experience with the OKR framework
A capacity to both act as a servant leader and to lead from the front
Experience in leading the architecture of consumer-facing, highly scalable software systems
Provide architecture & design governance and oversight, while complementing our agile ways of working
Lead contributor to our long term Engineering Strategy.
Designing for compliance, security, and data protection

Soft Skills

Experience in leading multi-racial and multi-cultural team and celebrates diversity in opinions
Talent for precise articulations of end-users problems

Speciality in Early Stage Products (Zero to One)

Experience building software products from kick-off to ship
Loves running experiments and has the courage to kill products early if we get it wrong or have no traction

Product Management Skills

5+ years of product management experience
Performance tracking, KPI management and analysis in collaboration with business teams
Plan relevant testing phases, rollout and product delivery
Facilitate communication across all project phases and proactively alert management of changes to scope, timelines and resources
Solution oriented, highly-motivated and proactive self-starter
Macro-to-micro versatility: strategic mindset coupled with a keen attention to detail
Well-rounded interpersonal skills, and experience interacting with diverse personalities
Deep understanding of project management principles and best practices
Exceptional communication and presentation skills

Data Engineering

Grow a team of data engineers
Scale our data pipelines and tools
Drive the collection of new data from Data Sources
Improve our data model and instrumentation
Identify and build shared libraries and resources for Data Science work such as, forecasting tooling, anomaly detection at scale, and support for different machine learning approaches

Attitude towards others:

Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.

TL;DR

JUST BE NICE TO EVERYONE

I like to empower promising folks with fire in the belly, sharing my experience of taking calculated risks/bets, afterall everything is probability trees.

Index

Bookshelf
Life Experiences
Market Sizing
Crypto
ML/AI/Data Science
Product Manager
Turn Around CTO
Entrepreneur
Leadership
Probability
My Mental Models
Unknown-Unknowns
My Mentors