Sana Huma Sayyed

Overview

Building Orbit Ops in Kochi - climate analytics. Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company. Raised $33 million across 2 rounds. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. Co-founder & COO

   Feb 2022 - Present
   Orbit Ops · 4 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Took Orbit Ops from zero to $1 million ARR.
   • Grew the team to 15 people across 5 countries.
2. Senior Embedded Engineer

   Jul 2018 - Feb 2022
   Cisco · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Moved 60% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Software Engineer

   Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
   BigBasket · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Shipped 29 launches on the web team without a rollback.
   • Reduced cloud spend on web by 44% in two quarters.
4. Staff Embedded Engineer

   Feb 2012 - Jul 2015
   Paytm · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Took crash-free sessions from 96.8% to 99.7%.
   • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 552ms to 153ms.
5. Engineering Manager

   Oct 2010 - Dec 2011
   Wipro · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Grew the infrastructure team from 4 to 20 engineers.

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Education

1. IIM Bangalore

   MBA, Business Administration
   2007 - 2009
2. IIT Guwahati

   B.Tech, Engineering
   2000 - 2004