summary: Anurag Arjun is a Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Polygon (Matic Network).
content: Anurag Arjun is a Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Polygon, the leading Ethereum scaling solution. Led by Arjun along with Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal, and Mihailo Bjelic, Polygon grew from $26 million in market capitalization in 2019 to over $14 billion in 2021. Education In 2006, Arjun received a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Nirma Institute of Technology. He also scored in the 99.6th percentile on the CAT (Common Admission Test for the Indian Institutes of Management) test. Personal Life Anurag Arjun is from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He speaks English, Gujarati, Hindi, and Malayalam. Career Arjun started his career in 2006 as a Programmer Analyst at Cognizant. He was also a member of the Life Sciences Solutions and Consulting Group at Cognizant division in Pune, India. In 2008, he became a Product Manager at Dexter Consultancy. Arjun worked there for five years and during this time he co-founded two products - HealthTrac, a remote vital health parameter monitoring platform through third-party wearable devices, and HealthOne, a free SaaS-based clinic management tool for doctors. I am a technologist at heart, who integration is what I absolutely love - taking practices from different apps or domains and applying them. I have basic coding chops, advanced product definition expertise, intermediate customer research and customer development skills. In 2013, Arjun left Dexter Consultancy to work as a project manager at SNL Financial. At IRIS Business Services, he rose to the position of Associate Vice President of Product Management in a year. Anjur oversaw a 40+ member cross-functional team as they overhauled the product completely, resulting in major changes to the UX process and design, application performance optimization, and greater code maintainability. Polygon In December 2017, Arjun joined the Matic Network (now Polygon) team as a Co-founder and Chief Product Officer. Arjun defines the company's product roadmap, handles integrations with partner networks and DApps, and maintains the Polygon team. Polygon has grown rapidly since then. As of August 2022, over 37,000 dapps have been built on Polygon according to data from Alchemy. 