Darpan Jain

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.

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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learned more about building robust, secure solutions, primarily in Android for some very known Banking and Insurance giants.

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.