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356 people in our graph share verified history with Badal — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.
Farouk RiceunlockedBadal: together at San José State University (2014–2016)
×7Badal: together at Tata Consultancy Services
×4Badal: together at NVIDIA
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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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).
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,230
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Sam AltmanPresidentFounded Tools for Humanity +3Garry TanPresident & CEOFounded Y Combinator +1Jessica LivingstonCo-founderFounded Y CombinatorAlexis OhanianPartnerFounded RedditFred EhrsamYC Summer 2012Founded Nudge +1Matt HuangYC Winter 2011Founded Paradigm +1
+ 10,223 more
NVIDIA mafia136
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Jonathan RossChief Software ArchitectFounded GroqAlán Aspuru-GuzikSenior Director of Quantum ChemistryFounded Intrepid Labs +1Saurabh SrivastavaNemotron, Advanced Deep Learning ResearchFounded Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds +1Lee LiuWeb Software EngineerFounded Mezmo +1Musawir ShahSr. Software Engineer - TegraFounded Jerry +1Alex SismanisAndroid Developer InternFounded L1 Advisors +1
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San José State University mafia51
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Alex FieldingFounded Privateer Space +2Samir KajiBachelorsFounded Allocate +1Narbeh DerhacobianMBAFounded Adesto Technologies +1Deny KhoungBFAFounded Standard MetricsRoger ThorntonMSFounded Witness aiRamin SayarMBAFounded Sumo Logic
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Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya mafia7
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Apoorva SharmaComputer ScienceFounded SalaryBookAmar GautamBachelor of EngineeringFounded HyperTraderPiyush KatejaEngineer’s DegreeFounded AeriaVipul Jainbachelor of engineeringFounded DegpegPriyaank ChoubeyBachelor of EngineeringFounded DailyRoundsDivya VenugopalBachelor's of Engineering (B.E)Founded Tredence
Whatfix mafia3
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Same school
Also attended Y Combinator2,000
Tarek MansourCo-founder & CEO of KalshiSuhail DoshiFounder of Mixpanel; founder of ParticleSubomi OluwalanaCo-founder & CEO of ConvoyArhaan A.Deeptech Fellow at Clear VenturesCollin WallaceGeneral Partner at Lobby CapitalVictor SantosVictor Scout at One Way Ventures
+ 1,994 more
Also attended San José State University222
Arturo LitvinHead of Global Portfolio Development at Intel CapitalCarrie RuleVP Finance at Redpoint VenturesJamie WatsonGTM Coordinator at Scale Venture PartnersDeny KhoungPortfolio Support at 8VCKim TranFinance at Lux CapitalSathya ShanthakumarDirector of Investor Relations at 7wire Ventures
+ 216 more
Also attended Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya10
Zainab AliData Engineer at Correlation VenturesBhaskar AhujaChief Advisor, Fund Finance & Strategy at Nurse CapitalApoorva SharmaFounder at SalaryBookAmar GautamFounder at HyperTraderPiyush KatejaCo-Founder & Director at AeriaVipul JainFounder at Degpeg
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Shared employers
Also worked at Whatfix3
Also worked at Layup2
Also worked at Amazon1,104
Apoorva MehtaFounder of Instacart; founder of Cloud Health SystemsBinny BansalCo-founder of Flipkart; co-founder of PhonePe and OppDoorBrad PorterFounder & CEO of Collaborative RoboticsJane MooneyCo-founder & VP, Strategy and Finance at Collaborative RoboticsNick FrosstCo-founder of CohereViswa SankaranarayananVenture Partner at Monta Vista Capital
+ 1,098 more
Also worked at NVIDIA194
Jonathan RossFounder of Groq; inventor of Google's TPU — now at NvidiaDiana HuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorIan ShannonFinance/Legal/IR at 8VCRay SchuderSr. Investment Director at Samsung Catalyst FundSandy YuanAdvisor, AV & Robotics at Verissimo VenturesAbhi DinkarAdvisor - Enterprise Technology at Augment Ventures
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