Vishwesh (VJ) Jirgale

Vishwesh (VJ) Jirgale has a wealth of experience in engineering and angel investing. Vishwesh began their career in 2015 as a Principal Engineering Manager R&D at Microsoft, where they were responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Outlook on Android and iOS platforms and portfolio of Small Business Focused Applications. In 2018, they joined Astro Technology, Inc (now part of Slack) as Head of Engineering, and then became the Engineering Site Lead Pune at Slack. In 2020, they joined Sifar Ventures as Partner, where they were hands-on and made the right connections to enable founders to find the answers. In 2021, they became an Angel Investor Fellow for the June 2021 Cohort at On Deck, and then in 2022 they became Head of Engineering at ModernLoop, Angel Investor at TeamOhana, and VP of Product and Engineering at Dyte (YC W21).

VJ Jirgale obtained their MCS in Computer Science from Savitribai Phule Pune University between 1997 and 2002. Vishwesh also obtained a Gamification certification from the University of Pennsylvania (online learning) in April 2013 and a Certified SCRUM Master certification from SCRUM alliance.