Hello, I'm Vaibhav Magon

Entrepreneur. Ultra-Runner. Bibliophile. Amateur Guitarist. Always Shipping Products!

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About Me

Product engineering leader, entrepreneur, and full-stack specialist with experience in product development, management and scaling consumer products. Have shipped products to millions of users using first principles and built and led strong teams in companies from scratch. Currently I spearhead engineering with a dynamic team of 40+ engineers at a core payments startup CheQ!

Prior at Askmonk, I was the CEO & headed all tech, product and executive initiatives for the company. We raised 2 rounds of funds in a tenure of 2 years and exited in ~2017. I have also been part of core teams for both B2B & B2C product startups: Head Of Engineering - Twin Health (Unicorn), VP - TradeIndia (~ 20M SME), AVP - Wooplr (15M+ Users), & Lead engineer - Goibibo (Unicorn) on their flagship products where my focus was on consumer empathy and performance both. Have scaled 0 -> 100K, 100K -> 10M & 10M -> 50M+ consumers across different startups!

I have also been a speaker at various entrepreneurship & startup events including ones at IIM-A & Carnegie Mellon University, US.

Tech: NodeJs, Python, SQL & NoSql Db, GraphQL, Spark, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, BitBucket Pipelines, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS (Core), GCP, AliCloud, Airflow, Data pipelines, ETL and Machine Learning.

Hustle 🚀

CheQ

Helping people understand, manage & leverage credit better. 1M+ Users. $1B+ topline.

Founding Team & Head, Engineering

Askmonk - Astrology on the go!

Mobile-first Astro Technology Startup. Scaled to 1,00,000+ Clients. Exited 2017.

Founder & CEO

Buy me chai - Gratification Page!

Helping supporters appreciate creators by sponsoring a cup of tea. India-first Product.

Maker (🔥 BetaList)

Project Fitness

Lost ~33 Kgs of weight in 15 months by eating "Ghar ka Khana" and running!

Hustler

Blog on Medium

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Stark: In-house discovery module

3x efficacy & 1/3rd cost in ~3 months!

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Ephemeral Environments on AWS

End-to-end implementation to setup ephemeral envs using k8s in 10 steps!

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Going Vernacular

Mutli-lingual capability at scale for 500 Mil users to communicate in local languages.

Get In Touch

Reach me ️here!

I help founders/startups with technology, product, growth, strategy, and scale.