Summary
Vasu Jain is a founder and staff-level engineer with 12+ years building AI-driven automation, large-scale APIs, and developer platforms for companies like Slack (Salesforce), PayPal, and Shutterfly. He has a proven track record of turning integrations into measurable business impact—designing approval automation that eliminated 95% of manual approvals and LLM-powered workflows that reached 50% adoption in weeks for 80,000+ users. As an engineering leader he blends hands-on system design (APIs, cloud, webhooks) with product-minded developer tooling, having processed billions of API calls and shipped enterprise Slack bots that streamlined sales and HR workflows. An active hackathon winner and four-time Microsoft MVP, he pairs rapid prototyping skills (voice assistants, Alexa apps) with enterprise reliability and several patents from PayPal. Currently building CareReel, an AI platform to support families through cancer, he brings a rare combination of resilience, empathy, and technical depth to founder-led product work. Based in San Francisco and educated at USC, he mentors engineers and drives DEI initiatives inside large orgs in addition to shipping scalable systems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Southern California
All India Senior School Certificate Examination, Mathematics and Science (Physics, Chemistry), All India Senior School Certificate Examination, Mathematics and Science (Physics, Chemistry) at Dayawati Modi Academy
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Uttar Pradesh Technical University
Spanish, English, Hindi