About
Ankit Jain held engineering leadership roles at Sunshine, Homejoy, and Shippo, and previously worked as an engineer at Google and Adobe. He has also been involved in founder advisory work and currently manages a community for former Google employees.
Ankit Jain @ankitxg
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Ankit Jain @ankitxg
Now feel like a good moment to bring up Stacked PRs π https://t.co/6Tc5iV27Ck
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Ankit Jain @ankitxg
"As an industry, I feel like we've lost our minds. Teams are throwing away everything they've learned over the last many decades about how to effectively measure our engineering experiences. And we're not even just throwing it away. We're making negative progress." Brian https://t.co/4SdDnEQs8L
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Founder at AviatorYC S21
Intro paths
Ankit went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Ankit can intro founders to Aviator's investors below.
Aviator's investors Β· 1
Experience
- AviatorCo-Founder and CEOcurrent2021 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Xoogler.coPartnercurrent2015 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Various StartupsAngel Investor and Advisorcurrent2017 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- SunshineFounding Hacker2018 β 2021Palo Alto, California, United States
- ShippoEmpowering Data Science & Engineering Team2016 β 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- SporpleCofounder & CTO2015 β 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- UnshackledEntrepreneur in Residence2015 β 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- HomejoyTeam Lead, Platform Engineering (Acquired by Google)2014 β 2015San Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2011 β 2014San Francisco Bay Area
- Adobe SystemsSenior Member Technical Staff2010 β 2011
- Cisco SystemsSoftware Engineer2008 β 2010
- MyNumo, LLC (Now Playscreen, LLC)Game Developer2007 β 2008
Education
- Y Combinator2021
- Delhi College of EngineeringBachelor of Engineering, Computer Science2004 β 2008
Skills & more
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Start-upsLanguages English Β· Hindi Β· Spanish
- cdCon 2022 Speaker β The Linux Foundation
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Same school
Also attended Y Combinator1,485
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Also attended Delhi College of Engineering23
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Shared employers
Also worked at Sunshine1
Also worked at Homejoy3
Also worked at Google1,132
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Also worked at Adobe Systems92
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