About
Badal Jain is Co-Founder and CTO of Layup. He previously worked as a founding engineer at an early-stage startup and held engineering positions at Amazon and Nvidia.
Founder at LayupYC W23
Intro paths
YC
Badal went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Badal can intro founders to Layup's investors below.
Layup's investors · 4
Co-founders at Layup
Experience
- WhatfixPrincipal Engineercurrent2025 — present
- LayupCo-Founder & CTO (Acquired)2023 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- Inference.ioFounding Engineer2021 — 2022Sunnyvale, California, United States
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer2017 — 2021Greater Seattle Area
- NVIDIASoftware Engineer2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- NVIDIASoftware Development Intern2015 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
- Tata Consultancy ServicesSystems Engineer2012 — 2014
Skills & more
Software Design1Technical Direction2E-Commerce2Entrepreneurship2StartupsWeb ApplicationsSystems DesignFront-End DevelopmentBack-End Web DevelopmentDigital AuthenticationMicroservicesKubernetes
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DocumentationData PrivacySystem ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipCloud InfrastructureDistributed SystemsAPI DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentJSONGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)AWS LambdaAmazon S3Languages English · hindi
- Equity Derivatives: A Beginner's Module — NSE India
- Financial Markets Beginner Module — NSE India
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Badal Jain?
- Badal Jain is Co-Founder and CTO of Layup. He previously worked as a founding engineer at an early-stage startup and held engineering positions at Amazon and Nvidia.
- Where does Badal Jain work?
- Badal Jain is Founder of Layup.
- What companies did Badal Jain found?
- Badal Jain founded Layup.
- Where did Badal Jain go to school?
- Badal Jain studied at Y Combinator (W'23); San José State University (Master of Science (MS), Computer Software Engineering); Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science).
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Shared employers
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Also worked at Amazon645
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