About

Amitav Chakravartty is an accomplished engineering executive, entrepreneur, and investor with over 15 years of experience in launching mission-critical enterprise and consumer products and services within SaaS, Marketplace, and Fintech spaces. He has a proven track record of taking a product from 0 to 1 and scaling it with growth. Currently, Amitav is the Director of Engineering - Marketplace & Apps Infrastructure at Cohesity, where he is leading the Marketplace & Apps Infrastructure for the company. Previously, Amitav worked as Director of Engineering - Growth and Monetization at Splice, a hyper-growth sound cloud platform offering a music creator marketplace. He was responsible for multiple teams that managed the Customer journey and Payment Engineering. The payment team maintained the core set of revenue-generating systems like payments infrastructure, subscription, and identity across the Platform. Amitav is also an Engineering Leadership Mentor at Plato, where he meets weekly with engineering leaders through Plato's mentorship program to help others develop soft skills, build better teams, and talk through management challenges. Amitav's educational background includes a Master of Engineering from Gauhati University and a degree in Entrepreneurship from Y Combinator. He is passionate about web3 and crypto projects and has expertise in Senior Software Engineering, Infra, and Web3. As an angel investor, Amitav has navigated companies from initial concepts to successful products and generated millions in revenue. With relevant experience of 14.69 years, Amitav is skilled in taking a product from ideation to market and scaling it to achieve growth.