Jacob Singh

Jacob Singh is a technology entrepreneur and startup advisor known for his work across artificial intelligence, product development, and technology leadership. He currently serves as CTO in Residence at Sequoia Capital for Southeast Asia and India, where he mentors early-stage startups as part of the Surge programme.

Singh previously held senior leadership roles in technology companies operating in the digital commerce and startup ecosystem. He served as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Officer at Grofers, a major online grocery delivery platform based in New Delhi that later rebranded as Blinkit. Earlier in his career, he also held leadership roles in the venture and technology ecosystem associated with Sequoia Capital and AlphaWave.

His professional work has focused on building technology teams, scaling digital products, and supporting startup founders working on emerging technologies.

In addition to his work in venture and startup mentoring, Singh is the founder of SingOneSong, a project exploring the use of artificial intelligence to help people learn singing through personalised vocal feedback and training tools.

Singh frequently speaks about artificial intelligence, automation, and the future of work, particularly the ways emerging technologies are reshaping software development, digital products, and the structure of modern technology teams.

Hi! I lead Acquia's India office. I live in Delhi.

Work:
I've worked as a trainer, project manager and engineer; building websites since 1999. I love to help people learn stuff. and things.

Not Work:
Basketball, guitar, mandolin, bowling, jokes, singing, friends, theatre

Right now, I'm mostly an evangelist. So my contributions are inspiring and organizing other people. I'm also building the Acquia Drupal business in India.

I also build curriculum and deliver trainings. These trainings are on basic topics like where Drupal fits in the marketplace to site building all the way up to advanced topics on module development, large scale architectures and design patterns.

I spent a couple years before this building http://drupalgardens.com and as part of that, spearheaded the D7 version of the media module which attempts to be a digital asset management system in Drupal.

In D7 core, I was the original author of what is now called the Update Manager (GUI based module and theme updates/installs) Here is the old issue

I also work for Acquia (http://acquia.com).

My other project and somewhat neglected step child is the Apache Solr Integration module which we have turned into a hosted service. I primarily work on the hosted service, but I also help out on the module.

I'm passionate about integrating best of breed FOSS projects with Drupal and Drupal usability enhancements.

Before Acquia, I was a Drupal consultant, building websites for NGOs/NPOs for 2 years with CivicActions (http://civicactions.com). Before that, I thought Drupal was pronounced DrupAHL but I've worked with computers professionally for about 11 years.