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Himanshu Sahay

Founder of Arch

New York, New York

Overview

Work Experience

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Arch

  • Co-Founder & CTO

    2022 - Current

    The easiest and most secure way to borrow against your crypto.

Various

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    Investor in early and growth stage companies, and venture funds. Rolling fund investments (Uncommon Ventures) - AlloyX (Pre-seed) - Taco Labs (Pre-seed) Syndicate investments - Souq (Seed, led syndicate) LP: - HodlCo (investment fund/holding company) - Magic Fund Angel Investments - Sanas (Seed) - Mural (Seed) - Finesse (pre-Series A) - Humans Anonymous (Pre-seed) - Drip Capital (Series C) - Stripe (secondary) - Coinlist (Series B) - Cover Insurance (Series B) - Mighty Health (YC S19) (Seed extension) - NFT Guru (Seed) - Mythia (YC W21) (Seed) (returned capital) - Cakeshop (Pre-seed) - Jelly (Pre-seed) - Edge (YC W23) (Pre-seed)

GR

Grishin Robotics

  • Venture Scout

    2021

PV

Predictive VC

  • Venture Partner

    2021

SI

Snap Inc.

  • Software Engineer

    2020 - 2022

    • Created the new AdKit Android SDK (launched Dec 2020), bringing Snap ads to third party mobile apps via the Snap Audience Network. Partnered with Mopub, Unity, AppLovin and others • Created App Ads Kit for Android (first party ad attribution, launched Mar 2021) • iOS engineer on the new Story Studio app (launched Dec 2021) • Moderated DroidCon Americas 2020 Snap Panel

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Bird

  • Software Engineer

    2018 - 2020

    • Built the Bird service center app from the ground up to track, repair and maintain its massive fleet of last mile vehicles (we went to this from tracking on spreadsheets) • The workflows in this app cut down $Xmillion in repair/labor costs Learnt a ton about Android architecture, complex RxJava and how to (and how not to) build software. Experienced hyper growth as Bird exploded onto the map, enabled this growth by building the first several iterations of the service center and fleet tracking product for use in all markets Also worked on the Reliability and Mechanic Engineering teams from time to time

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Tinder

  • Software Engineer

    2017 - 2018

    • Core Android Team • Tinder U, Bitmoji in Tinder, Edit Profile, Profile Share and more Built features that are used daily by tens of millions of users, learnt Kotlin, RxJava and the intricacies of dependency injection with Dagger

WPI Tech Entrepreneurs

  • Founder and President

    2014 - 2017

    Founded WPI's student entrepreneurship club. Fostered entrepreneurial activity on campus. Organized talks and workshops with entrepreneurs, and started the Startup Career Fair to get students jobs at early stage startups. Individually, I also worked with the school on institutional initiatives in innovation and entrepreneurship, including giving talks to visiting university delegations, consulting during the search for the next Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at WPI. Find us: http://techentrepreneurs.org Read about us: https://lnkd.in/d8ZApSj We’re also mentioned in this book on entrepreneurship: https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=_bVeDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=wpi+tech+entrepreneurs&source=bl&ots=a8vytusb3X&sig=ACfU3U3Pm89qlh7ozzK5dxsdxYWp82BLWw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCxbTm-fnrAhVVtZ4KHZQIAmo4HhDoATAEegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=wpi%20tech%20entrepreneurs&f=false And in this paper: https://www.academia.edu/39062238/Entrepreneurship_Education_as_a_Service

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Microsoft

  • Software Engineer (Microsoft Garage)

    2016 - 2016

    • Created a data analytics and warehousing solution for the interactive exhibits at the Hall of Human Life at the Museum of Science, Boston, including a real-time operations dashboard (Azure, Power BI) and an automatic anomaly detection system, trained using machine learning models • Microsoft and the Museum of Science called it a model for transformational corporate-civic partnerships on their respective blogs (linked below) • The museum can now draw insights about visitor interaction with its exhibits within the Hall of Human Life using data it gathers from visitors

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Amazon

  • Software Development Engineer

    2016 - 2016

    • Kindle for Android • Created a framework to improve the navigational experience in Page Flip, and built its first iteration • The Page Flip feature for Kindle was launched in June 2016 and enabled non linear navigation in e-readers for the first time ever (think flipping through a textbook)

Education

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