I am hiring senior engineers and builders to join the Amazon Business engineering team. Amazon Business provides a unique shopping experience with access to hundreds of millions of products, business-only selection, free two-day shipping, business pricing, multi-user business accounts, approval workflow, business payment solutions, tax exemptions, dedicated business customer support and much more.
Ping me if you are interested in solving enterprise grade technology problems and in disrupting B2B commerce.
Sr. Technology Leader, Amazon Business @ From June 2015 to Present (5 months) Austin, Texas AreaManaging Partner & Founder @ From January 2012 to Present (3 years 10 months) Chicago, ILMentor @ From May 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) Dallas/Fort Worth AreaCTO @ From July 2013 to June 2015 (2 years) Greater Seattle AreaInterim CTO / Advisor @ Provide technical and product advisory services and mentoring to the founders and executive team for this hyper growth startup. From March 2013 to June 2013 (4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCTO @ Founded and led engineering, R&D, product management and SaaS operations for New Brand Analytic's industry leading social business intelligence platform. Successfully grew product through initial launch and beta into the market leader for restaurant and hospitality segments.
- Established Israel subsidiary and grew Israel engineering and R & D to 20 person team
- Raised venture financing over $25M. Successfully led technical and product due diligence
- 4 provisional patents and significant domain IP created in natural language processing algorithms From January 2011 to February 2012 (1 year 2 months) General Manager and Vice President ServiceLive Inc. @ Product management and engineering for consumer business and mobile applications. Strategic planning,brand development, traffic and revenue growth, P&L ownership and served on the board From April 2009 to February 2011 (1 year 11 months) Co-Founder / V.P Product Management @ Product managed and led development for ‘Jamkai’, a social networking mobile platform for the iPhone. Took the platform from concept to beta in five months when it was selected as the first ‘staff pick’ social networking platform by Apple on the iPhone.
Designed and coded a collaborative filtering recommendation engine, certified by Netflix to be ~5% more accurate that their proprietary CineMatch system. From September 2005 to March 2009 (3 years 7 months) Director of Professional Services & Architecture @ Program managed cross-functional on-site and offshore Selectica technical teams in multi-year multimillion dollar sales automation projects through pre-sales, requirements gathering, design, implementation, deployment and post launch support at IBM, Dell and Disney.
Partnered with firm’s sales leadership to plan and successfully execute sales campaigns in excess of $30 million for professional services.
Key contributor in developing alliance relationships with IBM Global Services and Accenture and to successful IPO. From June 2000 to June 2005 (5 years 1 month) Consultant @ From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Greater Pittsburgh Area
MBA @ University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School From 2004 to 2006 M.S @ Penn State University From 1997 to 1998 B.Tech @ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras From 1993 to 1997 Kendriya Vidyalaya Vivek Sagi is skilled in: IT Strategy, Product Management, Strategic Planning, Analytics, SaaS, Product Strategy, Big Data, Start-ups, Lean Startup, Enterprise Software, Competitive Analysis, Cross-functional Team..., Leadership, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Devices, CRM, E-commerce, Management, Business Strategy, Product Development, Business Development, Mobile Applications, Strategic Partnerships, Marketing Strategy, Marketing, Software Development, Project Management, P&L Management, B2B, Integration