Sohan Jain
Senior Staff Developer at Shopify
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSohan Jain is a Senior Staff Developer at Shopify with 14 years of experience building and scaling full-stack systems across startups and major platforms. He led engineering at Threads through growth and acquisition, running a 17-engineer org while still contributing as an individual contributor on web and backend systems. Previously he helped build Twitter’s knowledge graph and tweet classification platform, blending ML-driven classification with large-scale data infrastructure. A former founder and early product engineer, he combines principled, fast shipping with strong recruiting and culture-building instincts. Based in Chicago and Cornell-educated, he’s interested in startups, AI, and mental models for decision-making—often favoring tight feedback loops and pragmatic technical strategy.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Cornell University
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sohan/Diablo-2-Hero-Editor-Hacks
Nov 2016 - Mar 2019
A script to hex-edit your single player save file in Diablo II for patches 1.13 and 1.14
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 3 months
hexsave-filediablo-iipatchessingle-player
ThreadsHQ/dataloader
Jun 2018 - May 2021
DataLoader is a generic utility to be used as part of your application's data fetching layer to provide a consistent API over various backends and reduce requests to those backends via batching and caching.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
apibatchingcachingbackendsfetching
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