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Sidhant Goyal San Francisco Bay Area · Available for advisory & collaborations

Engineer turned CEO

Engineer Turned CEO Building AI-Driven Growth Systems

I build products at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and business growth. Today I lead GrowthOS as CEO and Co-Founder while staying hands-on with architecture and product execution.

About

Technical operator focused on AI-native products and resilient systems.

Over the last 5+ years, I have shipped software across enterprise and startup environments — from payment infrastructure at American Express, to founding engineering at Junio and Artisan, and now building GrowthOS as CEO. My edge is combining architecture depth with business urgency: scaling systems, scaling teams, and scaling revenue.

Experience

Roles shaping product, infrastructure, and growth outcomes.

Featured projects

Products and platforms I have built end-to-end.

GrowthOS — AI Visibility Platform

2025 — Present

AI-powered platform that optimizes brand discoverability across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Live with 20+ paying enterprise clients including Shaadi.com and Dainik Jagran.

PythonTypeScriptNext.jsPostgreSQLVector DBsOpenAIAnthropicAWS

AI Proctoring System for Online Exams

2020

ML-powered proctoring built during COVID-19 that scaled to 30+ universities across India, monitoring thousands of concurrent exam sessions with computer-vision-based behavior detection.

PythonTensorFlowOpenCVWebRTCReactPostgreSQLAWS

Education

Schools that shaped my engineering and business foundation.

Selected impact

Outcomes from engineering and product work.

Scaled Artisan from 0 to $8M ARR as founding engineer.
Built distributed systems processing 100M+ daily payment transactions at 99.99% uptime.
Took Junio backend from zero to 1M+ users in 6 months.
Cut PostgreSQL CPU from 95% to under 25% through query and indexing redesign.
Migrated Spark 2 → Gluten + Velox for 60% lower server load and 40% faster jobs.
Shipped ML fraud interceptor that reduced fraudulent transactions by 45%.

Stack & skills

Tools and disciplines I use to build and scale products.

Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptGolangSQLJavaC++Bash

Backend & APIs

FastAPIDjangoFlaskNode.jsExpressRESTGraphQLWebSocket

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisCouchbaseDynamoDBPineconeWeaviate

Cloud & DevOps

AWSDigitalOceanTerraformPulumiDockerKubernetesNginxGitHub Actions

Data Engineering

Apache SparkApache KafkaApache AirflowCeleryInngest

AI / ML

OpenAI APIAnthropic APILangChainVector EmbeddingsRAG SystemsFine-tuningPrompt EngineeringMCP

Certifications

Selected programs and courses.

Harvard Leadership Edge: Making Sound Decisions Quickly 2023
AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud-Native 2021
Udacity Deep Learning Nano Degree 2020
Blockchain Specialisation 2020
Venture for All — Columbia Business School 2015

Awards

Recognitions across hackathons and orgs.

Winner — Amex Global Hackathon
Global Rank #4 — Amex Secure Coding Challenge
Winner — Coopathon 2.0
Asia Rank 3 — International Physics Olympiad
8+ Team Excellence Awards at American Express

Publications

Peer-reviewed research and technical writing.

XMSRAVNet: Accurate and Explainable White Matter Lesion Segmentation using Multiscale Residual V-Net with Attention Mechanism and Cosine Warm Restarts

Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) Oct 2025

A YOLO-based Technique for Early Forest Fire Detection

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE) April 2020

Writing

Notes on founder execution, AI products, and system design.

Building GrowthOS: From Idea to Autonomous Growth Engine How we are approaching AI-native growth execution with product speed and systems thinking.
Apr 2026
Engineering for Reliability at Scale in Payment Systems Lessons from designing distributed services where uptime and consistency are non-negotiable.
Mar 2026

Get in touch

Open to product conversations, advisory, and collaboration.