Where does Sid Sanyal work?

Sid Sanyal is Venture Partner at Bloccelerate VC.

Where did Sid Sanyal go to school?

Sid Sanyal studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (Bachelor of Engineering (Gold Medal)); Macquarie University (PG Diploma in Information Technology, Software Engineering); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Certificate, Data Science - Tackling the Challenges of Big Data).

Sid Sanyal

Investor

Venture Partner at Bloccelerate VC

Auckland Metropolitan Area

About

Sid Sanyal is a venture partner and fractional CTO at Bloccelerate VC with 18+ years of engineering leadership experience across cloud infrastructure, privacy, AI, fraud detection, and blockchain. He has held senior technical roles at AWS, Meta, Eigen Labs, ANZ, Zurich, and Ericsson, where he led platform architecture, product launches, and engineering organizations ranging from individual contributors to directors. His background includes leading Amazon's largest internal cloud migration, launching AWS services generating over $1B in annual recurring revenue, and building Ethereum infrastructure systems.

Experience

Bloccelerate VCVenture Partner & Fractional CTOcurrent2024 — presentNew Zealand
SyndicateHead of Engineering (VP)2024 — 2025Seattle, WA
Eigen LabsHead of Engineering (VP)2023 — 2024Seattle, WA
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Senior Manager - Software Development2022 — 2023Seattle, Washington, United States
Protocol LabsEngineering Manager & Product Lead (Web3 Infra)2021 — 2022Seattle, Washington, United States
FacebookGroup Technical Program Manager - Privacy & Data Infrastructure2020 — 2021Menlo Park, California, United States
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Principal Technical Program Manager - Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)2019 — 2020Greater Seattle Area
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Principal Technical Program Manager - EC2 Networking & ELB2018 — 2019Greater Seattle Area
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Senior Technical Program Manager - EC2 Networking & ELB2015 — 2018Greater Seattle Area
ANZ BankSenior Solution Architect2012 — 2015Melbourne, Australia
Zurich Financial Services AustraliaEnterprise Architect - Group IT Architecture & Strategy2010 — 2012Sydney, Australia
Barclays Bank PlcSolution Architect - Multichannel Banking (APIs)2009 — 2010Singapore
HBOS AustraliaLead Software Architect - SOA & Business Process Automation (CTO Office)2008 — 2009Sydney, Australia
Ericsson AustraliaIntegration Architect | Software Engineer - SOA/APIs2005 — 2007Sydney, Australia
SAP LabsSoftware Development Engineer - SAP NetWeaver XI2003 — 2004Bengaluru Area, India

Skills & more

Start-up Ventures1Angel Investing1Data Modeling1Privacy ComplianceIT Infrastructure ManagementInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipIT LeadershipIT Strategy44Enterprise Architecture70Solution Architecture75

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Program ManagementCloud ComputingBig DataAnalyticsMulti-channel MarketingBusiness Process DesignCRMAgile MethodologiesEthereumAmazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon RDSAmazon S3

Languages Bengali · English · Hindi

The Data Scientist’s Toolbox — Johns Hopkins University
R Programming - John Hopkins University — Coursera Course Certificates
Licensed ZapThink SOA Architect — ZapThink LLC
Certified TOGAF 8.1 Practitioner — The Open Group

From Sid's professional profile.

Colleagues at Bloccelerate VC

Adina Fischer

COO at Frachtis

Alpin Yukseloglu

Venture Partner at Bloccelerate VC

Anand Radhakrishnan

Advisor at Bloccelerate VC

Andy Sack

Advisor at One Way Ventures

Charles Tango

Venture Partner at Bloccelerate VC

Joe Giordano

Venture Partner at Bloccelerate VC

Kate (Mitselmakher) Laurence

CEO, General Partner at Bloccelerate VC

Logris Bard

Advisor at Bloccelerate VC

Frequently asked questions

Who is Sid Sanyal?: Sid Sanyal is a venture partner and fractional CTO at Bloccelerate VC with 18+ years of engineering leadership experience across cloud infrastructure, privacy, AI, fraud detection, and blockchain. He has held senior technical roles at AWS, Meta, Eigen Labs, ANZ, Zurich, and Ericsson, where he led platform architecture, product launches, and engineering organizations ranging from individual contributors to directors. His background includes leading Amazon's largest internal cloud migration, launching AWS services generating over $1B in annual recurring revenue, and building Ethereum infrastructure systems.
Where does Sid Sanyal work?: Sid Sanyal is Venture Partner at Bloccelerate VC.
Where did Sid Sanyal go to school?: Sid Sanyal studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (Bachelor of Engineering (Gold Medal)); Macquarie University (PG Diploma in Information Technology, Software Engineering); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Certificate, Data Science - Tackling the Challenges of Big Data).

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Shared employers

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