MD Fazal Mustafa — Founder
Hi everyone I am Fazal:- I was born & brought up in Kolkata. I wrote my first code at the age of 5 and made a square using Logo. Looking at the turtle move with each line of my code was so fascinating. Computer practical class became my favorite class in school. At the age of 13 in 7th std, I got my first computer at home, by this time I was already aware of Logo, Q Basic, and had started learning Java. A computer with a LAN internet connection I got myself into torrents. And started my hustle of selling movies & games in my class. This was my second hustle though, the first one being selling expensive pens at second-hand rates in the fourth standard. After the 10th std, I took Biology & not CS because CS was something that I was confident in and could study on my own. A decision that would help me a lot 7 years later. So I prepared for medical science. I cracked both Medical Exam called NEET(UG) & Engineering Exam called WBJEE. I choose engineering as I liked to experiment and tinker with stuff a lot & also discovered that I am not very good at rote learning. Based on my rank I went to IT Dept at the Heritage Institute of Technology at Kolkata(HITK). Just after my first semester, I started looking for work. I got a front-end engineer intern role at LWT Academy. I revamped their whole product. I got my 2nd intern role at Wholmeal where I did everything including fundraising. After that in Jan 2020, I started up Collegeshala, we got funded with $250K in Nov 2020, and we got 32K+ students, 500+ professors. We were India’s First faculty-driven University specific notes marketplace for Undergraduate academic degree courses. In Aug 2021 we got acquired by Lecturenotes, a leader in this sector. We were onboarded as Co-founders of Lecturenotes because of our contributions. There I was responsible for increasing the product portfolio from 1 to 3, updating the entire tech stack & building tools & systems for the internal organization for efficient content operations, scaling users from 300k to 2.2+ Million students, 50K professors, 10K Colleges, and raising a pre-series round of $2.5 Million. On the side, I have been learning & working on AI since late 2019. I have built at least 30+ AI models in the field of NLP, Computer Vision, and Autonomous systems. I also do research work. Within College, I started Google Developer Student Community and scaled it to 1200+ members under my leadership. I stepped down from Lecturenotes in March 2023 after fulfilling my lockin and all responsibilities to start up again, which currently is in stealth mode.
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Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 5 yrs 5 mos
Career Highlights
- Founded and scaled multiple successful startups.
- Expert in AI with 30+ models built in NLP and Computer Vision.
- Led product development and fundraising efforts for tech startups.
Work Experience
Heva AI
Founder & CEO (7 mos)
Self-employed
Self-Directed R&D (1 yr 5 mos)
Consultant (2 yrs 6 mos)
Associated Innovators
Technology Consultant (1 mo)
FreeFlow Ventures
Technology Consultant (4 mos)
Sconto
Investment Consultant (1 mo)
LectureNotes Technologies
Founder (0 mo)
Founder & Head of New Initiatives (2 mos)
Founder, Head of Product & Business (1 yr 6 mos)
Audifie
Founder & CEO (2 mos)
CollegeShala (EduTech)
Founder, CBO & CPO (1 yr 5 mos)
Self-Employed
Freelance (7 mos)
Wholmeal
Android Developer & Operations (2 mos)
LWT ACADEMY
Full- Stack Web Developer (2 mos)
Education
IT at Heritage Institute of Technology
at Coursera
Higher Secondary at Saifee Golden Jubilee English Public School
at Albany Hall Public School
Primary School at ST Laetitia's School
Cloud | Artificial Intelligence | Autonomous Systems | Data Science at Udacity