Feroz Sheikh
CIO And CDO at Syngenta Group
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFeroz Sheikh is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building and scaling deep-technology products, currently serving as CIO and CDO at Syngenta Group where he leads global IT and digital transformation for agriculture. He has founded and exited multiple ventures, raised VC funding, and steered large engineering and data science teams to deploy digital platforms used across 150M+ acres. A strong advocate for open ecosystems and data standards, he chairs AgGateway and has driven open-source public-good platforms for education that reached millions. His background spans real-time semantic systems, adaptive learning, and AI-driven remediation, combining product vision with hands-on architecture. Beyond computing, he brings a lifelong curiosity in physics and astronomy—having built a superconductor and an 8-inch telescope as a youth—which informs his systems-level approach to complex problems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
EMEP, EMEP at Indian Institute of Management, KozhikodeBachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at Delhi College of EngineeringHigh-school Computer Science, High-school Computer Science at CRPF Public School, Delhi
Github Skills (14)
render10
player10
javascript9
content-editor6
hosting4
cms3
mysql2
database2
postgresql2
sql2
editor2
archetype1
logging1
scalable1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sferoz/raspberrypi-bot
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
apiraspberry-picontrolledrestfulbot
Sunbird-Knowlg/sunbird-content-player
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Content-Player which is used to play/render the contents in both device and web.
Contributions:75 commits in 1 year 4 months
renderjavascriptcontentsplayer
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