Avinash Jain

Hey there! I'm Avi. I live in SF and I'm a full-stack engineer and former founder. I'm currently exploring my next opportunity.

I spent the last few months exploring AI dubbing as a tool for educational creators. Ultimately, this wasn't a big enough problem for creators - social capital wasn't enough across language to compete against existing content, and the willingness to pay was low.

Before that, I was the co-founder of Cardinal Labs, an NFT infrastructure company on Solana. We raised $4.3 million, and at our peak had 40k monthly active users across our protocols and processed 6+ million transactions.

I've been teaching online for over 8 years, helping over a million students how to code through Udemy courses, YouTube videos and projects on my own platform, The Codex.

Areas that currently excite me: the whitespace between task automation and AGI - building human-like tools and experiences. Tools for all things video: creativity, infrastructure and analysis. Great people, great teams.

If you're working on an in-person startup in SF looking to hire a technical all-rounder, I'd love to chat.

Twitter
@avinashj1
GitHub
@TheCurryMan
Email
avinashj@berkeley.edu

Last updated: Feb 1st, 2024

Past Experience

Eat. Code. Sleep. Repeat.
co-founder · NFT infrastucture on Solana
6m+ transactions, 40k mau
Blend
PM · innovation research in homebuying journey
co-founder · AI communication coaching platform
30k beta revenue, 2.5k speeches analyzed
executive director · led world's largest collegiate hackathon
Amazon
SWE · backend algos for the ads team
Apple
SWE · iOS features for Apple News
champion of the ping pong table

Projects

Code. Build. Hack. It's time to hack.
Gumball

Gumball

Waves

Waves

ZooKeeper

ZooKeeper

VAAS

VAAS

E.V.A.C

E.V.A.C

SyncUp

SyncUp

Talky

Talky

Iris

Iris

Guru

Guru

MedicAI

MedicAI

ICON

ICON

60Seconds

60Seconds

PinPoint

PinPoint

Rhythm

Rhythm

Teaching

"Hey guys, Avi here. Welcome back!"
founder · programming courses and videos
1m+ students, 70k subscribers, 300 hours of videos
CS 170
ugsi · taught algorithms, led discussions, made videos
Cubstart
instructor · iOS and web curriculum for beginners

Readings

Blue: highly recommend
    Three Body Problem
    Exhalations
    Ticket Masters
    Range
    Shoe Dog
    2022
    1984
    The Secret History of Food
    The Alchemist
    Born a Crime
    Old Man and the Sea
    The Two Cultures
    The Sun Also Rises
    Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    California Burning
    Eat a Peach
    Myth of Sisyphus
    The End of the World is Just the Beginning
    The Stranger
    The Dream Machine
    Tao of Pooh
    Brave New World
    The Biggest Bluff
    Crime and Punishment
    The Utopia of Rules
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich
    The Tale of Two Cities
    2023
    Debt: The First 5,000 years
    2024

Running

2023 mileage: 550 mi · half marathon pr: 1:37:35

Lifting

75 hard completed · 1000 lb club progress: 79%