Sam Bhagwat

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs 2 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Co-founded Gatsby, raising $50M and achieving $5M ARR.
Authored the popular book on AI agents in San Francisco.
Led multiple successful software engineering projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with strong expertise in AI development and startup leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringAi DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentDatabase ManagementFinancial AnalysisConsulting

Other Skills

TypeScriptAI frameworksReact.jsBackbone.jsPostgresMongoDBFull-stack DevelopmentRevenue OptimizationAd Inventory ManagementAd Serving OptimizationFinancial ModelingStrategic PlanningCompetitive BenchmarkingData ScienceData Analysis

About

I co-founded Gatsby (used by 100s of thousands of devs, raised $50M, grew to $5M ARR, sold to Netlify) Now I run Mastra (YC W25), the typescript framework for building ai agents. I also wrote "Principles of Building AI Agents", the "most popular book in SF right now"

Experience

18 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Mastra

founder / ceo

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Mastra is the TypeScript framework for building AI agents.
Go to https://mastra.ai/ or https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra to get started.

TypeScriptAI frameworksSoftware EngineeringAI Development

Netlify

Principal Engineer

Feb 2023 – Aug 2023 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Gatsby joined Netlify! Excited to keep pushing Jamstack and the modular web forward.

Gatsby

Cofounder

Jan 2018 – Feb 2023 · 5 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Gatsby & the Jamstack are re-architecting the web to make it faster, richer, and more interactive.

Plangrid

Software Engineer

Feb 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Built Documents product (nested filesystem)
Rewrote Sheets frontend from Backbone.js to React.js
Migrated backend applications from MongoDB to Postgres

React.jsBackbone.jsPostgresMongoDBSoftware EngineeringFrontend Development

Zenefits

Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Early engineer. Full-stack. Built v1 of Background Checks, Zenefits Platform.

Full-stack DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Boingo wireless

Software Engineer

Aug 2013 – Jul 2014 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Built tools to optimize revenue.
an inventory management system for ad inventory
a pacing engine to optimize ad serving based on various metrics such as CPI & campaign completion

Revenue OptimizationAd Inventory ManagementSoftware Engineering

Blueseed

CFO

Apr 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Blueseed was trying to launch an international visa-free technology hub for high-tech entrepreneurs within the Silicon Valley ecosystem, located on a cruise ship 12 miles off of Half Moon Bay.
Networked with potential funding sources, created operating plan, drummed up press.

Financial ModelingStrategic PlanningFinancial Analysis

Mars & company

Associate Consultant

Jul 2011 – Mar 2012 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Financial modeling, competitive benchmarking, supply chain activity-based costing, and sourcing analysis, as part of strategy consultancy for Fortune 500 companies,

Financial ModelingCompetitive BenchmarkingConsulting

The church of jesus christ of latter-day saints

Missionary

Jan 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

90 hours/week.
Recruiting. Grew membership by 150% KPI. In one area, increased church growth from 50% KPI to 200% KPI in six months pre- vs. post-arrival.
Counseling.

Various organizations

Researcher, Reporter & Editor

Jan 2006 – Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Assisted Hamilton Helmer in research on organic business diversification
Wrote series of 19 articles (23,000 words) investigating lack of local economic development for Sacramento-area newspaper
Envisioned, created, recruited co-editor, managed 10-15 writers for new features section of Stanford Daily.