Testimonials
I recently had a mentoring session with Saad A Akash, and I found him to be an excellent mentor. He provides constructive feedback on areas for improvement while also instilling confidence to pursue future endeavors. I highly recommend him to anyone seeking career guidance.
Saad is full of information and straight on point: a sincere listener and a good advisor.
Saad is highly skilled, experienced, really wise and a veryy humble and extremely helping person. The way he patiently listened to all of my queries and answered each thoroughly, I am in debt of his kindness. He is definitely a go to mentor who possess skills across the board and is passionate about helping people and getting their boats out of rough waters.
About me
I build data-driven solutions - mostly in the form of decentralized software & distributed systems. I've hired the right people to build startups that shipped & scaled products at the right time to hit the market. As a co-founder running an interdisciplinary tech & media venture studio with a background as an engineering manager at a Silicon Valley-based web3 venture studio & fractional CTO at a Texas-based IT consulting firm, my experience enabled me to explore the intersection of product design (why), engineering (how), and people (who).
Brief Career Highlights:
- Led 8 web3 protocols with multiple Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) funded startups, 2 IoT projects, and built engineering teams to ship multiple B2B SaaS/CRM/CMS & EdTech products
- Helped 4 startups raise a total of $32.43M in their pre-seed & seed rounds from top VCs including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), VaynerFund, Wavemaker Partners, Learn Capital, Polychain Capital, etc.
- 8 international awards, 20 national awards including 8 olympiad titles and 5 research publications
- Industries:
Expertise: Web3 Infra & Tooling, Consumer EdTech, B2B SaaS & Enterprise AI
Familiarity: Retail, Supply Chain, Logistics & Insurance
Also, I'm an active mentor & jury board member of national & international hackathons, blockchain olympiads, robotics olympiads, etc.
+ Available for: Engineering Leadership & Consultancy, Technical Project Management
+ Interested in: Solution architecture design for Digital Business Solutions/White-label products, UI/UX & Interaction Design Research, Knowledge Initiatives & Community
+ Topics of Interest: Human-Centric Design (HCD), Data Engineering & Analytics, Rapid Hardware Prototyping
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