Poojith Jain
Engineering Manager at Harvey
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPoojith Jain is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack, product-focused systems at scale, currently leading Growth and Registration efforts for WhatsApp after tech leadership roles at Instagram and Meta. A Carnegie Mellon alum, he blends backend infrastructure expertise (cloud containers, orchestration, IaC, Python/Java) with consumer-facing iOS and web product work, having driven cross-cutting efforts like LinkedIn’s build-time optimization and Service Marketplace. He excels at translating ambiguous 0-to-1 problems into shipped product and platform solutions, balancing architectural rigor with pragmatic delivery. Comfortable across mobile, backend, and developer tooling, he also champions engineering craftsmanship—introducing linting and architectural guidelines to improve interoperability and code quality. Based in Toronto, he brings a mix of enterprise-scale systems experience and startup-style product ownership, with a track record of measurable impact on performance and discoverability.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Science & Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science - Information Technology, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science - Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (22)
python-lib8
android-project7
gradle-plugin7
kotlin7
android6
java6
fonts6
twitter6
jvm6
ascii-art5
refactoring5
ascii5
scala5
groovy5
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Poojith/mutual-fund-portfolio
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:92 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Poojith/IoTInsight
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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