Jai Jalan
Founder & CEO at Better
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJai Jalan is a founder and CEO with nearly a decade leading Better into a unified software and growth platform that has driven over $100M in cumulative business impact across clients. He combines hands-on engineering roots from Microsoft and Google with product-led platform thinking, having built and scaled teams of 50+ across technology and marketing to deliver durable, not campaign-driven, operating models. Earlier ventures and roles—from consumer mobile platforms and AR systems to enterprise consulting—shaped his practical approach to platform architecture, team building, and rapid product-market reach. An IIT Dhanbad alum and former ISU PhD student, Jai blends deep technical fluency in native apps and backend systems with entrepreneurial experience launching consumer services and a kids-focused community venture. Notably, he stays involved in technical decision-making even while leading strategy and partnerships, emphasizing resilient systems over short-term wins.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), DhanbadMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Iowa State University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
31reputation
2kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (103)
nodejs10
jtc10
boilerplate10
react10
javascript9
bdd9
sdk9
test-framework9
flask9
kubernetes9
typescript9
tdd9
browser8
python8
testing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jalantechnologies/handbook
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
How we operate as a company
Contributions:21 reviews, 16 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 7 months
jtcjavascript
jalantechnologies/rflask-boilerplate
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Boilerplate code for building projects using Python, Flask and React
Contributions:105 reviews, 5 PRs, 205 comments in 1 year 4 months
boilerplateflaskpythonreacttypescript
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