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Sonali Sambhus
Fractional CTO/CPO and Advisor
Helping founders, CEOs, CTOs, and other leaders level up their engineering & product functions and ultimately drive business growth. I am a seasoned leader, Ex SVP at Square, ex-CTO, current Fractional CTO, Startup Advisor, and Board member.
I coach, diagnose, bridge gaps, and drive positive change using my 20+ years' of experience across a broad and deep range of industries (including B2B SaaS, B2C) company stages/sizes, and challenges.
As the former Head of ML Platforms at Square and a curre…
Work
Fintech Credit Score & Risk Management Solution | Worth AI
https://worthai.com/Advisor to the CTO, CEO and Data Science teams for building an AI-based risk management B2B SaaS application.
Key Accomplishments:
- Deeply embedded with the data science teams, enabling them wherever needed, including calibrating model performance, and identifying opportunities for improving ML.
- Created an AI Explainability strategy balancing the delicate needs of fintech regulations, explaining…
Block Inc
https://block.xyz/As Head of Block's Developer Platforms, my team's work resulted in a $400M+ impact through fraud prevention, risk assessment, and lending applications.
While leading the ML Platforms, in the lending space, we increased TAM by $150M by adding new data sources, with the right feature engineering, and model tuning. I spearheaded many projects for MLOps/AIOps, ensuring that accelerated the ML developme…
Experience
Worth AI
Fractional CTO/Advisor
May 2024 - Present
Series A, AI-Based B2B SaaS Fintech Product for Risk Assessment and Credit Scoring.
- Advisor to the data science team for model performance improvements and data infrastructure
- Advisor to the CTO for talent development, hiring, coaching
- Advisor to the CEO for fundraising, business expansion and product strategy for achieving product market fit
Avidxchange, Inc.
Member Board of Directors
Nov 2022 - Present
Accounts Payable Automation and payments leader for mid-market businesses with $400M in revenue.
- Beyond governance and strategic insights, I am deeply involved in the digital transformation, automation, AI strategy and delivery efforts
- Strategic M&A advising and deal due diligence
- Cybersecurity assessment, mitigation and cyber defense
Multiple Startups
Startup Advisor
Jan 2021 - Present
Cartup: AI-enabled shopping assistant, Market Engine: Gen AI-based digital marketing, Affable: business process management platform.
- Coaching, Deep tech advise for team building, operations, improving engineering and product
- Introductions to meaningful network connections through my board network resulting in customer and revenue growth
- Helping with fundraising through coaching and VC intros
CommonBond.co
Advisor
May 2021 - Jul 2022
CommonBond was one of the fastest-growing lending companies in the U.S with $50M+ in revenue (Series D).
- Product Strategy for the pivot from a single product company to a multi product portfolio
- Advisor to CTO for the student lending product for improving the customer experience for the B2C offering
- Steered the M&A and eventual exit
Square
SVP Developer and Machine Learning Platform
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Block Inc (formerly Square) is the leading Fintech company in the US. My role spanned the broad portfolio of Point of Sale Products and Square Bank.
- Head of ML Platforms resulting in a $400M+ impact to Square through fraud prevention, risk assessment, lending applications
- Head the DevOps and Internal Platforms driving 30%+ in developer productivity
- Head the API Platform product, improving product delivery and ultimately CSAT
Vuclip
Vice President of Engineering
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
International Media company operating in 30+ emerging countries, offering short-form entertainment with apps.
- Cloud Migration, QA Automation for the B2B2C product,
- improving availability of services from 96% to 99.99%
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