Nishith P Agrawal

Built large high-performing engineering and product teams several times over. Founded, scaled and exited two profitable technology startups. Hands-on Engineering and Architecture Experience in building large distributed systems, cloud native, web and mobile app, serving millions of users. Touched over 30M+ lives through my work. I have gone from ZERO to ONE several times, building, coaching and scaling high performing engineering teams. Hired, managed and mentored engineering leaders and solution architects. Currently building EdTech @Amazon. Engineering - Built large high-performing engineering teams several times over. *Highlight:* Built a 300-member Agile Product Development Team. The product serves 2M+ users with 100M+ transactions during peak. Think Big and Deep Dive - My superpower is being able to think big strategically, and at the same time dive deep into tech execution details. *Highlight:* Provided tech thought leadership working closely with CXO's, delivered scalable solutions in many industries - Finance, Aviation, Telecom, Education, Media. Tech Architecture - Hands-on Engineering and Architecture Experience in building large distributed systems, cloud native, web and mobile app, serving millions of users. I believe in solving technology problems by going back to the basics. I like to work directly with the engineering teams on the ground and help them solve problems. *Highlight:* One such payments system processes financial transactions of €600 billion per year. Product Leadership - Led several products from idea to launch to scale. *Highlight:* Designed and brought to market multiple innovative data science and ML based products in EdTech. My products have touched more than 3M lives. ZERO to ONE - Founded 2 technology startups. Bootstrapped, hired and mentored diverse talent at all levels. Profitable. Completed a successful exit @10x profit multiple. *Highlight:* Several tech folks that I mentored closely have gone on to build their own successful startups or are working in leadership positions.