Sandesh Goel
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I usually start with first principles on cloud choices, team scaling, and the hidden costs that show up later, especially in architecture decisions. If you want, tell me what you are weighing and I can help you think it through.
About
Sandesh is currently MD at wisdomlabs AI - parent company of asksila.com (consumer digital twin platform). He has been MD at eightfold.ai - an AI-powered talent intelligence platform - since 2019. Before Eightfold he was Chief Architect and Country Lead at Cumulus Networks (acquired by NVIDIA), and earlier Distinguished Technologist at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, working on data-center and Wi-Fi network analytics. He holds a B.Tech in CS from IIT Delhi and an MS from UT Austin. Alongside Eightfold he is a Technical Advisor at Open Science Stack, a not-for-profit building digital public infrastructure for deep-science and deep-tech R&D, and a part-time consultant at Ramen Inc. on AI object-detection frameworks for vision analytics. He's a useful sounding board on cloud architecture, scaling engineering teams, and applying first-principles thinking to both technical decisions and broader topics like personal finance and life choices.