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Anurag Arjun

Founder, Avail. Previously co-founder at Polygon Technology.

India

Invests in

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  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $200,000.00

Skills

Product Management
Blockchain
Product Development
Databases
Ethereum
Team Management

Education

Work Experience

2023

  • Founder

    2023

2017 - 2023

  • Co-Founder

    2017 - 2023

    Polygon brings massive scale to Ethereum using a wide variety of off-chain scaling solutions. Polygon strives to solve the scalability and usability issues on Ethereum, while not compromising on decentralization and leveraging the existing developer community and ecosystem. Polygon leverages off-chain scaling to provide scalability and superior user experience to DApps/user functionalities built on top of Ethereum. My responsibilities include: - Defining the Polygon product roadmap - Acting as the bridge between Research, Economics and Engineering functions - Defining technical specs for product features and research elements - Product and project management across all modules - Handling integrations with Partner networks and DApps - API documentation - Recruiting and maintaining a great team - Third party developer network buildout and documentation

  • AVP, Product Management

    2014 - 2017

    GST Integration of third-party ERP and accounting software with the IRIS GST solution, in keeping with the mandate brought by the Government of India. Carbon Cloud based platform for enterprise reporting. The product is targeted for US public companies and mutual funds which need to file disclosures to the SEC, along with corporate filers in Italy and UK. Led a 40+ cross-functional team through a complete overhaul of the product, resulting in significant UX workflow and design improvements and application performance optimization, along with better code maintainability. The product is now gaining customer traction, with early customers comparing the product favorably against the incumbent products.

SNL Financial

2013 - 2014

  • Project Manager II / Scrum Master

    2013 - 2014

  • Working Partner | Product Manager

    2008 - 2013

    Responsibilities: Co-founder / Product Manager for 2 products - HealthTrac Remote vital health parameters monitoring platform through third-party wearable devices. Call center backend to co-ordinate with medical professionals for a subscription based fee. - HealthOne SaaS based clinic management tool for doctors, provided free of cost. Revenue model was to create a targeted marketing channel for medical professionals and sell ads . Projects • Functional Consulting for the Implementation of Dexter ERP System for SMEs • Requirement gathering and Analysis, Preparing Use cases, Translating Requirement to Technical development Team, Solution designing, Business Process Mapping, Gap Analysis, Conducting Project Reviews, Reviewing Projects Health. • Interviewing stakeholders, business managers, users to understand and document business requirements and functional specifications for the Workflow • Technology based solution design for process implementation • Business Research to sales team and senior management, Preparing and Presenting Product Presentations to respective shareholders • Providing techno functional consultancy about systems and processes to Development team. • Project Management: Tracking, Monitoring and Review Projects health at organizational level • Coordinating with Project managers to ensure optimum delivery of projects to the clients • Recruitment

  • Programmer Analyst

    2006 - 2008

    Responsibilities: • Member of the Life Sciences Solutions and Consulting Group at Cognizant, Pune • Worked on LabVantage Sapphire LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems) implementations for 3 clients, viz. Parker Hannifin, Bristol Water and Schlumberger. Was wholly responsible for leading the team and ensuring project completion for the first 2 client projects • Worked on the Clinical Trial Data Migration for 10 trials for Merck Inc. as a Business Mapper – mapping proprietary clinical trial data formats into the industry-standard CDISC SDTM format, working along with senior medical professionals (MD, MBBS) and co-ordinating with the Informatica and Java development team to ensure end-to-end migration • Worked on the competency building activity for positioning a proprietary SDTM mapping application to be offered as a product for the company