Summary
Shiv Ansal is a product-focused engineer and founder with a decade of experience building consumer and developer-facing products in the San Francisco Bay Area. He co-founded BANDS to simplify royalty reporting for musicians, scaled the product through an acquisition by Warner Music Group, and then led the post-acquisition launch of WMG Pulse. Comfortable moving ideas from 0 to 1, Shiv blends fast iterative shipping with attention to design and pragmatic engineering. Prior roles at Coinbase and Viasat round out his experience across fintech, networking, and music tech. As CEO and co-founder of Crowdsurf Music, he’s now applying that mix of product intuition and systems thinking to help people discover music with friends. A hands-on leader, he pairs technical depth from a CS background with a knack for turning complex domain problems into simple, actionable products.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Monta Vista High School
Spanish, Punjabi, Hindi, English