Amol Jain is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building consumer and enterprise products from early-stage startups to high-growth companies. Currently Head of Product Engineering at Replit, he previously co-founded and scaled WorkWhile to Series B as CTO and Head of Product, overseeing both engineering and product teams for a two-sided platform. His earlier tenure includes tech leadership at Airbnb and engineering roles at Facebook, where he worked on Newsfeed, navigation and push notifications backend systems. Amol blends hands-on technical depth with product instincts, routinely shipping scalable systems and aligning engineering priorities to business outcomes. He holds an MS from Carnegie Mellon and is a Y Combinator alumnus, a combination that informs his pragmatic, research-informed approach to product development. Less obvious: he has navigated both high-scale consumer infrastructure and founder-level operational tradeoffs, making him effective at bridging strategy and execution.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
W19, W19 at Y Combinator
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at DA-IICT
Master of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Carnegie Mellon University
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