Barry Winata

Founding Partner

2022 - Current

For Founders, apply here: https://metagrove.vc/pitch Building an innovation bridge between the US and APAC to disrupt the future of industry by helping early-stage companies scale and go global. We are powered by mentors, operators, and experts from Silicon Valley and leading companies across Australia and SEA. We are community-driven leveraging our powerful global network to source opportunities, support with due diligence, provide mentorship and connect our founders with world-class partners. metagrove.vc

Founder

2023

Argon Labs is a boutique content, marketing, and growth agency focused on producing high-quality digestible technical content for technology-focused companies from early-stage all the way to scale-ups and growth stage across Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and the US.

Startup Mentor

2023

Founder

2020

A media company focused on producing content to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs. We speak with experts, founders, leaders, investors, and creators with the aim of learning the secrets of success, learning from failures and building resilience.

Investor & Advisor

2019

Angel investing globally typically across the US, APAC and Europe, but certainly open to new regions. Most deals come through private networks, but feel free to reach out directly if you're building something cool.

Product & Growth

2020 - 2021

Technical/Team Leader

2020 - 2020

Skylo is deploying the world’s most affordable and ubiquitous satellite-based network that can connect any machine or sensor. Skylo provides connectivity to machines at work in the world’s unconnected geographies, and our end-to-end solution is transformative for entire industries: from digitizing farmland and remote infrastructure with sensor data, to saving lives at sea and on land with connected vessels and vehicles.

Principal Software Engineer

2019 - 2019

VC Lab - Cohort #1

2021 - 2021

Volunteer CS Teacher

2018 - 2019

Teaching Computer Science to AP High School students

Software Lead, Systems Connectivity

2017 - 2019

• Lead and migrated our existing Device-to-Cloud connectivity layer to AWS IoT Core, including Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, CloudFormation and ECS. Cross-functional team engagement both in-house and externally with Amazon. • Designed and unified Sensity’s next-generation messaging specification / framework responsible for device-cloud communication. This involved liaising with Product Management, Cloud and Device teams to ensure transparency and consolidation amongst all products and the platform. Framework encapsulated REST principles implemented on top of MQTT and encoded using MessagePack • Active contributor to the Cloud platform’s re-architecture to help scale utilising technologies like Kafka, MQTT, Cassandra, Docker and DCOS and also deep insight into device-cloud communication. • Developed various Go-lang based libraries and core services for our embedded line of devices built on top of the Yocto Project. • Embedded-Cloud integration and software lead responsible for ensuring consistent device to cloud platform communication using RESTPack-MQ.

Software Engineer, Embedded Development

2016 - 2016

Sensity Systems is acquired by Verizon

Software Engineer, Embedded Systems

2015 - 2016

• Developed USB device drivers to communicate between MCU (Marvell MC200) and cell modem (Quectel UC15) on the AT&T network for our next-gen wireless core node. • Participated in cross-functional design and integration of new RF antenna between hardware and firmware teams to support power constraints. This included limiting max power transmission and data rate usage. • Developed cross-platform SMS messenger tool in Python to communicate with cellular nodes on large-scale deployments to support QA and field operations via AT&T's GSM network and Jasper's SOAP web services. Monitoring, collecting and analysing node data was the intent of said tool. • Developed device simulator (go-lang) to support scalability testing / development for the company's new cloud platform. This helped the platform team debug, stress test and provide feedback in horizontal scaling the cloud infrastructure.