Summary
Nazmus Saquib is a technical founder and CEO with a decade of experience building infrastructure that enables human-agent collaboration in commerce and micropayments. He leads Oak Network, an a16z- and Kickstarter-backed spinout that serves enterprise clients across the USA, LatAm, Africa, and Asia, translating cutting-edge agent architectures into production SDKs. Trained at MIT with a PhD in HCI and Embodied AI, he combines deep research in interactive AI, AR, and visualization with hands-on product and systems work spanning Web3, IoT, and financial engineering. His career started selling software at 16 in Bangladesh and has since moved between labs and startups—from MIT Media Lab and Adobe Research to founding ventures like Universal Machine and KolpoKoushol. Known for bridging rigorous academia and pragmatic engineering, he focuses on productivity-augmenting agent workflows that accelerate engineering and commerce. Outside tech he channels creativity into a dream-grunge band and graphic novels, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to invention and storytelling.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics & Liberal Arts, BA, Physics & Liberal Arts at Bard College
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Media Arts and Sciences (MIT Media Lab), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Media Arts and Sciences (MIT Media Lab) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The University of Utah
English, Bengali