About

Sagir Khan is an accomplished engineer with over two decades of experience in the business, design, and technology sectors. He has worked with some of the world's most recognized brands, including Amazon, Walmart, Tesco, Whirlpool, Best Buy, HSBC, and Barclays, among others. Sagir has provided executive technical leadership in strong engineering cultures at companies of all sizes across the globe. He loves building and leading world-class engineering teams and has a strong bias for action and uncompromising engineering standards. Sagir is passionate about growing technical leaders who push the boundaries of engineering excellence and execution. He believes in reasoning from first principles to learn deeply and commits to putting in the reps, betting on the power of tiny gains compounding over time. Sagir is an active member of the open-source community and maintains nodejs.dev while occasionally contributing to Node.js core. He is a deep specialist in JavaScript and its ecosystem, including React, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and MongoDB. Currently, Sagir works as the Head of Engineering, Accessibility at Amazon, where he is on a journey to make and keep AWS accessible. He is actively hiring and is looking for people who want to be a part of their zero-to-one journey. Sagir has previously worked as the Engineering Leader, Machine Learning Data Ecosystem at Amazon and Head of Engineering, Customer Experience & Content Platform at Walmart. Sagir has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. He is an avid reader and an 8-ball pool aficionado. Sagir has a flair for all things simple, loves to discover new perspectives, and tries hard not to be a perfectionist. He is on a quest to uncover the hidden lessons in the myriad experiences of life and loves to be in the arena than be judging from the stands.