Sajid Mehmood

Hiring founding engineers @ Niteshift - background coding agents that close the loop

New York, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Co-Founder & CEO at Niteshift
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Hiring founding engineers to work on the future of software engineering!

  • Datadog (6 yrs 4 mos)
    • Vice President, Engineering – AI/ML & Cloud Service Management
      Apr 2022 - Mar 2025 · 3 yrs

      Took on ownership of Datadog's AI/ML products & research as we transitioned into the GenAI era, starting with Bits AI, our SRE Agent. Our AI research program trained a state-of-the-art time-series foundation model named Toto, improving on benchmarks set by teams at Amazon, Google, and Salesforce. Also led our Dashboarding & DataViz orgs, as well as our Cloud Service Management org though the launch of Datadog On-Call in Jan 2025.

    • Senior Director, Engineering – App Platform
      Nov 2020 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Worked to make Datadog a "Platform for Action" that goes beyond observability to directly solve customer problems. Led the development & launch of Workflow Automation and App Builder products.

    • Director, Engineering – Cloud Platform
      Dec 2018 - Nov 2020 · 2 yrs

      Led the Cloud Platform group and launched & scaled several major new products, including Serverless Monitoring, Network Performance Monitoring, and Cloud Cost Management.

  • Founding CTO at Taptap Send
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr

    Taptap Send (originally a product of Segovia Technology, since spun out) is now a unicorn fintech company providing low-cost remittances into the emerging markets. Led the technical team that built, launched, and scaled Taptap Send through it's first year, while it was a part of Segovia. Also played a leadership role in the initial inception, product definition, branding, and operations. Taptap Send later spun out into a separate company (following the sale of Segovia's B2B business).

  • CTO at Segovia Technology
    Feb 2015 - Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Hired and managed a team of engineers to build a payment gateway for mobile money in sub-Saharan Africa. Led the engineering team from our first paying customer onwards. Our customers included with international NGOs, remittance companies, and agriculture firms to conduct payments 12 countries. In 2018, we launched our own consumer-facing remittance app, Taptap Send. Segovia's lead investor is Reid Hoffman, of Greylock Partners.

  • Tech Lead at Foursquare
    Feb 2012 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Technical Lead for the Growth team, focused on sign-up, onboarding, and reactivation efforts. I also did extensive work on our API and developer platform, as well as the initial launch of Swarm.