Saksham Mehla

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DISC Type : scd

Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Overview

Saksham is a software engineer building Breezy, a platform to make LLM fine-tuning accessible and affordable for Indian startups. His background is in network security at Palo Alto Networks, with skills in multi-cloud orchestration and AI infrastructure. He is a graduate of IIIT Delhi.

Outside of his entrepreneurial venture, Saksham has a keen interest in applying machine learning to diverse fields, having developed a model to classify exoplanets. He was also his universitys Football Coordinator, demonstrating leadership and a passion for sports.

He recently published GPU benchmarks showing an Indian cloud provider was 44% cheaper than AWS.

Personality Overview

Hard To Convince

Fast But Analytical

Quality Focused

They have a unique set of diverse traits where they are decisive and methodical but can sometimes be extra cautious and skeptical  They focus on the results, but can still be quite procedural and analytical about how to get there They are not very likely to become strong advocates of your product or service

Topics They Care About

LLM Fine-Tuning
Currently building Breezy, a one-click platform focused on making LLM fine-tuning and inference simple and affordable for startups in India.
AI Infrastructure Costs
Actively researches and benchmarks cloud providers, with a goal of reducing operational costs for companies building AI products.
Startup Entrepreneurship
Focusing his career on building a product for a specific market (Indian startups) and has studied entrepreneurship in emerging economies.

Media Appearances

Saksham has no verified media appearances

Work History

8-2023 - 9-2025
Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
10-2022 - 10-2022
Astro Hack Week 2022 at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
7-2022 - 5-2023
Sports Coordinator - Football at IIITD Sports Council

Education

2019 - 2023
Bachelor of Technology - BTech from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

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Insights For Selling To Saksham

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Be prepared for comments or questions that are critical of your product or your claims
  • Showcase how you can impact results but also make sure that you share detailed information too
  • Keep a professional, business-like approach; especially if you tend to get informal quickly

DONT's

  • Avoid self-deprecating references or general informality, it could decrease their trust in you
  • Don’t nudge them to do something by using the logic that others have done the same
  • Don’t focus on relationship, focus purely on the merit of your product

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Saksham is

  • ROI matters the most to them, followed by process and finally proof of results
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Saksham

  • They might hesitate a little, but will go ahead and say no when necessary (or asked)

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Saksham move?

  • They are unlikely to move very fast, especially when it comes to new products or services
  • Can Saksham take some risk or not?

  • They have relatively low risk-appetite and are not very likely to go for something unproven and risky

You And Saksham

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