# Darpan Jain URL: humandirectory.ai/darpan-jain JSON: humandirectory.ai/darpan-jain.json > Darpan Jain is Fractional CTO at Various, with past experience at Rippling, Cleverspend, Antler, studied at university college of engineering, Rajasthan, India. Source: HumanDirectory (humandirectory.ai) — verified, structured profile Last updated: 2026-04-09 ## Bio I am a technology leader and fractional CTO with extensive experience scaling SaaS products and building high-performing engineering teams. Throughout my career, I have served as a co-founder, engineering manager, and technical lead, specializing in revamping technical architectures and driving product growth from early-stage development to international scale. I am known for my hands-on approach to technical strategy, hiring, and building robust, scalable solutions. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/darpanjain9 ## Work Experience - Fractional CTO at Various (Aug 2024 – Present) I took over all things technology: * I revamped the technical architecture to make it scalable, got it ready for six-figure customers. * Replaced the service-based developers with engineers fit for the product they were building. * Created the job spec based on the new architecture, created technical assignments from scratch instead of using off-the-shelf LeetCode assignments, and conducted technical interviews (almost 800 in total this year). * Onboarded the engineers, conducted quarterly reviews including code deep-dive. - Software Engineering Manager at Rippling (2023 – 2024) - Co-Founder & CEO at Cleverspend (2021 – 2023) SAAS pricing is opaque. As a company, you are spending a lot on your SAAS tools, and you are paying more than you should. We know what is the right price to get a SAAS product, and how to get that price. If saving ~150k per $1mn USD sounds interesting to you, please leave a message at darpan@cleverspend. Our guarantee: It won't cost you anything if you don't save what we promised. - Entrepreneur at Antler (Sep 2020 – Dec 2020) Antler is a global early-stage VC that enables and invests in promising individuals to help them create startups of the future. I am joining their 3rd London cohort (LDN3). - Technical Lead at HubbleHQ (Aug 2019 – Sep 2020) My work includes working a diverse technology stack that uses Django and NodeJS, ReactJS and bash to support our core product and tools like CI integration, docker and automated deployment pipeline. Apart from hands-on development work, my day to day activities also includes mapping product vision into workable technical tasks and leading the team through accomplishing them using agile. - Senior Software Engineer at BrowserStack (Sep 2017 – Jul 2019) BrowserStack is a cloud web and mobile testing platform that enables developers to test their websites and mobile applications across on-demand browsers, operating systems and real mobile devices, without requiring users to install or maintain an internal lab of virtual machines, devices or emulators. I joined this startup to learn how do you scale a SAAS based product from zero to an international scale. I learned about building a scalable, high uptime very complex tech solution. I also learned how software sales, marketing and other moving parts of such a big startup work. I was part of a team that took a product out of beta to 7 digit ARR. My work includes working and stabilizing a relatively new Mobile testing product, end-to-end, which includes working on mobile platform (Android and iOS), back-end and few more proprietary components built with an array of technologies such as Node, Java, Ruby on Rails and Bash to name a few. - CTO at Pensieve (Apr 2016 – May 2017) Pensieve started as a tech start-up exploiting machine learning and NLP & AI capabilities to solve the problem of discovering relevant data from various sources and making sense of it. It is a domain agnostic decision-making platform. Our first focus industry was Legal-tech, where we were helping lawyers find relevant legal data related to their queries. In coarse terms, we were building Google for Lawyers. I took all the decisions related to technology, be it infrastructure, tech stack, security, compliance, hiring or our product's perception in public. Few of tasks I undertook - ● Designed the architecture of the product and leading execution. (I even built our tech infra and first MVP that got us funding singlehandedly before more people joined) ● I took part in funding process, talking to investors and gave them our vision on what we want it to become. ● Hired first few engineering and product management hires, managed contract workers and freelancers. ● For first few months before we could hire more, I did devOps, software engineering, product management, security and scraping data. ● Taking part in fund-raising activities, hiring the team from scratch. ● Took target customer interviews and held discussions to see where we are in terms of product-market fit, ran various experiments too. As a result, we got backing from India's top Law firms and got into Reliance's accelerator. We gathered 1000+ users from the niche domain within a short span in our Beta program. - Lead Software Engineer at ii5 Technologies (Feb 2015 – Feb 2016) ii5 was first of its kind solution to connect property brokers in India. They had big ambitions of becoming the de-facto MLS solution for Indian real estate industry and were heavily backed financially. I joined as the first engineer for their primary product team when the product was still an idea in evolution. I hired the whole team after me and built the product from scratch. It was a very bumpy ride, so it was tough to keep the team's morale high when everyone was overworked, but we pulled this off successfully and launched before time. - Senior Engineer Mobility at Cognizant Technology Solutions (Feb 2014 – Feb 2015) Learned more about building robust, secure solutions, primarily in Android for some very known Banking and Insurance giants. - System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services (Nov 2010 – Jan 2014) Joined as a software engineer and worked with some very big MNCs building solutions for them. I was very curious about business analysis and development activities. So I got a chance to work on some very big RFPs and a very ambitious project. ## Education - Computer science at university college of engineering, Rajasthan, India (2006 – 2010) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Who is Darpan Jain? I am a technology leader and fractional CTO with extensive experience scaling SaaS products and building high-performing engineering teams. Throughout my career, I have served as a co-founder, engineering manager, and technical lead, specializing in revamping technical architectures and driving product growth from early-stage development to international scale. I am known for my hands-on approach to technical strategy, hiring, and building robust, scalable solutions. ### What is Darpan Jain's professional background? Darpan Jain's experience includes: Fractional CTO at Various (Aug 2024 – Present); Software Engineering Manager at Rippling (2023 – 2024); Co-Founder & CEO at Cleverspend (2021 – 2023); Entrepreneur at Antler (Sep 2020 – Dec 2020); Technical Lead at HubbleHQ (Aug 2019 – Sep 2020); Senior Software Engineer at BrowserStack (Sep 2017 – Jul 2019); CTO at Pensieve (Apr 2016 – May 2017); Lead Software Engineer at ii5 Technologies (Feb 2015 – Feb 2016); Senior Engineer Mobility at Cognizant Technology Solutions (Feb 2014 – Feb 2015); System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services (Nov 2010 – Jan 2014). ### Where did Darpan Jain study? Computer science at university college of engineering, Rajasthan, India (2006 – 2010). ### How can I find Darpan Jain online? Darpan Jain can be found at: LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/darpanjain9. ## Source Information - Source: HumanDirectory (humandirectory.ai) — verified, structured profile - Profile URL: https://humandirectory.ai/darpan-jain - Structured data: https://humandirectory.ai/darpan-jain.json - Last updated: 2026-04-09 - Profile views: 7