Ishan Agrawal
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Japanese Elementary proficiency
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Ellery Jose, MTM
Ishan is a person with great strategic insight and abundant empathy. At FSMK he assembled a diverse set of technology leaders coming from different backgrounds (fortunate to be one of those) and guided them to achieve results and create business impact. He is demanding in terms of performance but is always ready to enable others. I admire how he focused on someone's strengths and not over-anchoring on the weaknesses part. I will miss his leadership for sure and I wish him best of luck for his next adventure.
Jianxin Li
Ishan understood our existing system quickly, what we were trying to do, and was able to make valuable recommendations in organizing our data pipelines even though we were operating in a foreign domain that was new to him. He did not stop at recommendations - he even went forth to execute his recommendations to great effect. Pleasant to work with, and definitely an asset to the team.
Ellery Jose, MTM
Ishan is a person with great strategic insight and abundant empathy. At FSMK he assembled a diverse set of technology leaders coming from different backgrounds (fortunate to be one of those) and guided them to achieve results and create business impact. He is demanding in terms of performance but is always ready to enable others. I admire how he focused on someone's strengths and not over-anchoring on the weaknesses part. I will miss his leadership for sure and I wish him best of luck for his next adventure.
Jianxin Li
Ishan understood our existing system quickly, what we were trying to do, and was able to make valuable recommendations in organizing our data pipelines even though we were operating in a foreign domain that was new to him. He did not stop at recommendations - he even went forth to execute his recommendations to great effect. Pleasant to work with, and definitely an asset to the team.
Ellery Jose, MTM
Ishan is a person with great strategic insight and abundant empathy. At FSMK he assembled a diverse set of technology leaders coming from different backgrounds (fortunate to be one of those) and guided them to achieve results and create business impact. He is demanding in terms of performance but is always ready to enable others. I admire how he focused on someone's strengths and not over-anchoring on the weaknesses part. I will miss his leadership for sure and I wish him best of luck for his next adventure.
Jianxin Li
Ishan understood our existing system quickly, what we were trying to do, and was able to make valuable recommendations in organizing our data pipelines even though we were operating in a foreign domain that was new to him. He did not stop at recommendations - he even went forth to execute his recommendations to great effect. Pleasant to work with, and definitely an asset to the team.
Ellery Jose, MTM
Ishan is a person with great strategic insight and abundant empathy. At FSMK he assembled a diverse set of technology leaders coming from different backgrounds (fortunate to be one of those) and guided them to achieve results and create business impact. He is demanding in terms of performance but is always ready to enable others. I admire how he focused on someone's strengths and not over-anchoring on the weaknesses part. I will miss his leadership for sure and I wish him best of luck for his next adventure.
Jianxin Li
Ishan understood our existing system quickly, what we were trying to do, and was able to make valuable recommendations in organizing our data pipelines even though we were operating in a foreign domain that was new to him. He did not stop at recommendations - he even went forth to execute his recommendations to great effect. Pleasant to work with, and definitely an asset to the team.
Credentials
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Consensys Certified Ethereum Developer
ConsenSysFeb, 2022- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Funding Societies | Modalku Group
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Singapore
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Financial Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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AI & Tech Advisor
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Jul 2023 - Present
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Group CTO
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Apr 2020 - Jul 2023
SEA's largest SME Digital Lending provider. Over $3 Billion in SME funding. (Sequoia, Softbank Vision Fund)
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VP Engineering
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May 2018 - Apr 2020
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Head of Data
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Jul 2016 - May 2018
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XA Network
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Singapore
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Member
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Nov 2022 - Present
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Various Startups
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Technology, Information and Internet
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100 - 200 Employee
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Technical Advisor
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Nov 2020 - Present
GajiGesa (Fintech, Indonesia) Kinexcs (Healthtech, Singapore) Play3 (Adtech/Web3, Indonesia)
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Angel Investor
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Jan 2020 - Present
Defog.ai (YCW23, AI) Every (YCS23, Fintech) Capi Money (YCS23, Fintech/Africa) bowled.io (Gaming/web3) Dezy (Fintech/web3)
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Customator
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SEA
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Consultant - Data Products and Engineering
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Aug 2015 - Dec 2016
Helped build data products for companies across SEA and India. Some Projects include: - Data and document management system for a health-tech company. - Data warehouse and search engine for a legal-tech company. - End-to-End experimentation and feature flag system for a unicorn e-commerce company Helped build data products for companies across SEA and India. Some Projects include: - Data and document management system for a health-tech company. - Data warehouse and search engine for a legal-tech company. - End-to-End experimentation and feature flag system for a unicorn e-commerce company
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General Assembly
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Analytics Instructor
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Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Lead instructor for the Data Analytics course for GA in Singapore. Lead instructor for the Data Analytics course for GA in Singapore.
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Rakuten Viki
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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200 - 300 Employee
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Software Engineer, Data and Platform
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Jan 2013 - Jul 2015
Acquired by Rakuten for 200M. - Built an Experimentation / Personalization framework to perform complex experiments across multiple platforms (Web, Mobile, Kindle, Xbox, Roku, SmartTV) with integrated result analysis. Over 200 experiments on 7 different platforms were run leading to conversion rate improvements of over 30%. Statistical Modeling to predict the winning variations. High-performance Golang API (300 μs response time) serving 5M DAUs. - Lead an agile development team within… Show more Acquired by Rakuten for 200M. - Built an Experimentation / Personalization framework to perform complex experiments across multiple platforms (Web, Mobile, Kindle, Xbox, Roku, SmartTV) with integrated result analysis. Over 200 experiments on 7 different platforms were run leading to conversion rate improvements of over 30%. Statistical Modeling to predict the winning variations. High-performance Golang API (300 μs response time) serving 5M DAUs. - Lead an agile development team within Rakuten to execute the above service as a SaaS tool to serve the experimentation needs of other Rakuten subsidiaries. Architected, project managed, did sales for this service within the Rakuten Group of companies. - Represented Viki at the Rakuten CTO Conference, Tokyo. Presented to all Rakuten C-level executives. - Built the data-warehousing infrastructure to support reporting, analysis and insight discovery, receiving over 200 million events ( > 1 TB) a day. - Delivered Viki Video Recommender system with Rakuten Data Scientists. - Built an Anomaly Detection and Alerting system on top of the real-time pipeline (Apache Storm). Show less Acquired by Rakuten for 200M. - Built an Experimentation / Personalization framework to perform complex experiments across multiple platforms (Web, Mobile, Kindle, Xbox, Roku, SmartTV) with integrated result analysis. Over 200 experiments on 7 different platforms were run leading to conversion rate improvements of over 30%. Statistical Modeling to predict the winning variations. High-performance Golang API (300 μs response time) serving 5M DAUs. - Lead an agile development team within… Show more Acquired by Rakuten for 200M. - Built an Experimentation / Personalization framework to perform complex experiments across multiple platforms (Web, Mobile, Kindle, Xbox, Roku, SmartTV) with integrated result analysis. Over 200 experiments on 7 different platforms were run leading to conversion rate improvements of over 30%. Statistical Modeling to predict the winning variations. High-performance Golang API (300 μs response time) serving 5M DAUs. - Lead an agile development team within Rakuten to execute the above service as a SaaS tool to serve the experimentation needs of other Rakuten subsidiaries. Architected, project managed, did sales for this service within the Rakuten Group of companies. - Represented Viki at the Rakuten CTO Conference, Tokyo. Presented to all Rakuten C-level executives. - Built the data-warehousing infrastructure to support reporting, analysis and insight discovery, receiving over 200 million events ( > 1 TB) a day. - Delivered Viki Video Recommender system with Rakuten Data Scientists. - Built an Anomaly Detection and Alerting system on top of the real-time pipeline (Apache Storm). Show less
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CorruptionTrak (Non-profit)
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Singapore and India
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Co-Founder
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Jul 2011 - Aug 2012
Inspired by the anti-corruption movement in India, developed a technological solution to gather crowdsourced geolocated corruption data. Won Code_n 12 competition at the CeBIT 2012, Germany with startups participating from all over the world. Inspired by the anti-corruption movement in India, developed a technological solution to gather crowdsourced geolocated corruption data. Won Code_n 12 competition at the CeBIT 2012, Germany with startups participating from all over the world.
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PayPal
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Engineer Intern
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May 2012 - Jul 2012
Developed an ultrasonic sound based data-transfer technology (patented under Paypal), which won the global innovation award ( Paypal Labrats). Developed an ultrasonic sound based data-transfer technology (patented under Paypal), which won the global innovation award ( Paypal Labrats).
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National University of Singapore
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Singapore
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Teaching Assistant
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Aug 2011 - Mar 2012
Programming Methodology (introductory CS course) Data Structures and Algorithms (advanced CS course) Programming Methodology (introductory CS course) Data Structures and Algorithms (advanced CS course)
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Rocket Fuel Inc.
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United States
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Jul 2010 - Jul 2011
Rebuilt the Real Time Bidder infrastructure to integrate with exchanges like Google’s DoubleClick, Appnexus and Admeld for scalability processing > 1B requests/day writing multiple TBs per day, and accounted for over 80% of the company’s revenue. Rebuilt the Real Time Bidder infrastructure to integrate with exchanges like Google’s DoubleClick, Appnexus and Admeld for scalability processing > 1B requests/day writing multiple TBs per day, and accounted for over 80% of the company’s revenue.
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Education
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Stanford University
NUS Overseas College, Management Science and Engineering -
National University of Singapore
Computing and Business, Computing
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