Ayush Jain
Building Things at Distill
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAyush Jain is a hands-on software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building AI and computer-vision driven products, currently shipping work at Distill in New York. He co-founded and served as CTO of Altro after leading vision efforts at Cape Analytics and running early-stage startups including DronesDash, giving him deep product and technical ownership across hardware, models, and cloud systems. A YC S20 alumnus with a BS in Computational and Applied Mathematics from USC, he blends rigorous quantitative training with startup execution. He has experience in venture and startup ecosystems as an Engineering Fellow at Kleiner Perkins and a founder who navigated regulatory and market challenges firsthand. Known for "hacking away" on GitHub, Ayush brings an experimental, delivery-focused mindset that favors rapid prototyping and iterating toward production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of Southern CaliforniaAlumni YC S20, Alumni YC S20 at Y CombinatorCupertino High School
java, Hindi, Spanish, English
Github Skills (36)
authentication7
firebase6
startup6
git-diff6
dataloader5
neovim5
gameboy5
code-generation5
typesafe5
codegen5
code-completion5
javascript5
git4
viml4
golang4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ayushajain/gba
Oct 2015 - Apr 2023
Javascript based Gameboy Advanced Emulator
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 7 months
gameboyjavascript
FireAuth/FireAuth
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
An Open Source JavaScript wrapper for Firebase's native and third-party authentication.
Contributions:41 commits, 41 pushes in 16 days
authenticationfirebasejavascript
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