Sandeep Nailwal is a co-founder of Polygon, a leading Ethereum scaling and infrastructure platform. Sandeep started his career as a software engineer and, in 2015, launched ScopeWeaver, India's largest marketplace for professional services, where he designed blockchain-based decentralized application architecture. Prior to that, Sandeep led the technology department at Welspun, the largest textile company in Asia, and worked as a consultant at Deloitte. Sandeep co-founded Polygon with Jaynti Kanani and Anurag Arjun in 2017.
Sandeep holds an MBA from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (Nitie), one of the top business schools in India. He is based in Dubai with his 120 people team distributed across India, Dubai, Asia, the USA, and Europe. His primary responsibilities include spearheading the branding, marketing, adoption, and operations at Polygon as well as partnering with key stakeholders to push forward the vision of Polygon. He is widely regarded as the architect of the blockchain developer ecosystem in India. He has helped 100+ Web3 companies to bootstrap and grow.
Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution Polygon claims to have achieved carbon neutrality through offsetting carbon credits.
The blockchain industry must do far more than promise to stop adding to the problem of the environmental crisis. Reaching carbon neutrality is an important first step, but there is more work ahead.