Arvind Saraf

Bio

Arvind did his BTech in Computer science from IIT Kanpur & went for his Master & PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science to MIT, where he worked as part of the Computer Science & AI Lab’s RAW microprocessor group. The RAW group did groundbreaking work in multi-core parallel processor design, some of which were mirrored 15 years later in Intel processor designs. MIT’s exposure got Arvind interested in tech-enabled solutions for emerging markets. He took a break from studies at MIT to return to India and joined Google. At Google, he worked on search algorithms (covering machine learning and recommendations) and ads. He helped transition Google’s then acquisitions, dMarc and Youtube, to google platforms and their early monetization prototypes. He left Google in April 2008 and co-founded Swasth India with 2 classmates. Swasth aimed at providing healthcare for the poor in India. He moved out of Swasth in 2012 and returned to Surat to join the traditional family-oriented textile brand & business, Triveni Sarees. He took the brand online – building a new team & processes. He founded Wishbook in 2016, a company digitizing traditional B2B apparel communication and transactions from manufacturers to retailers. He moved out of Wishbook & joined Drishti Technologies - a Machine Learning/Computer vision startup, applying the same to the Manufacturing sector. He is currently Vice President, Engineering at Drishti.