Sagun Garg

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, Crypto 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:
• Innovation Architect:
• Enterprise Architect:
• 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

1. Bookshelf
2. Life Experiences
3. Market Sizing
4. Crypto
5. ML/AI/Data Science
6. Product Manager
7. Turn Around CTO
8. Entrepreneur
9. Leadership
10. Probability
11. My Mental Models
12. Unknown-Unknowns
13. My Mentors