Sid Jain

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Applied AI Lead and senior full-stack engineer who turns ambiguous customer problems into production AI systems. Blends customer discovery, technical advisory, evaluation and workflow design, hands-on prototyping, and production architecture across AI, marketplace, browser, mobile, and infrastructure-heavy products.

Experience

Namefi

AI-powered registrar for tokenized domains and domainer workflows.

Senior Software Engineer / Applied AI LeadSan Francisco Bay Area / Remote Jan 2025 - Present
  • Led customer discovery with large domain owners and turned manual sales workflows into Namefi Outbound: AI-assisted buyer hypotheses, web research, lead scoring, contact discovery, and editable outreach, reducing prep from days to minutes.
  • Designed Brand Studio as a multi-stage AI workflow that turns domains into buyer-ready logos, posters, and motion concepts with strategist/concept passes, exact domain/TLD constraints, and animation workflows.
  • Built Namefi Feed, an AI-enriched listing intelligence layer that normalizes roughly 4,000-5,000 public domain listings from X, NamePros, DNForum, and marketplaces into searchable/RSS surfaces.
  • Built production registrar and domain systems across registrar integrations, DNS/DNSSEC, nameservers, ENS/.eth, renewals, payments, checkout, analytics, and Temporal-backed long-running workflows.

Memorang

AI education platform for adaptive practice, tutoring, assessment, and curriculum tooling.

Head of (AI-Native) CMSSan Francisco Bay Area / Remote Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
  • Translated Cambridge/TOEFL requirements into a schema-first AI CMS for generated questions/media, adaptive practice, scoring workflows, and content operations.
  • Built AI generation and recommendation workflows across full question sets, companion audio/image media, embedding-based media similarity, and schema-versioned content delivery.
  • Modernized a large JS/Flow monorepo toward TypeScript, Bun, and Biome using AI-agentic refactor workflows, codemods, and tooling while coordinating CMS roadmap with backend, frontend, app teams, CTO, and CEO.

Yuppies Tech

Founder-led product engineering consultancy for high-ambiguity client work.

Founder / Technical LeadMumbai / Remote Jan 2021 - Apr 2024

Founded and led a product engineering consultancy as client-facing technical partner, translating ambiguous requirements into architecture, delivery plans, and shipped systems.

  • Veera Browser: led Android Chromium browser delivery from zero to Play Store, owning Chromium/Brave patch management, build/release tooling, rewards/feed/onboarding/search/tabs, privacy/security updates, and later iOS platform setup.
  • Texts: built production Messenger channel by reverse-engineering undocumented infrastructure and implementing MQTT/Facebook Thrift, encrypted payloads, sync, groups, attachments, reactions, receipts, typing, and presence.
  • ZebPay: client-facing technical lead for a 10-person team modernizing iOS/Android apps, release infrastructure, exchange features, payment flows, and international KYC; moved stabilization releases from monthly/bi-monthly to weekly.
  • Mitsubishi Motors: client-facing technical lead for MiAR, turning remote dealership goals into native iOS/iPadOS and WebAR with optimized 3D vehicles, low-end Android support, bilingual content, and contest/admin workflows.
  • Airbus Tripset: solo technical partner to Milkinside for Airbus's public iOS/Android COVID travel companion, translating urgent traveler guidance needs into app/backend layers over Airbus/Amadeus APIs, CMS rules, and itinerary notifications.

Kult

Consumer beauty and skincare commerce.

Vice President of EngineeringMumbai Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
  • Built the first product and technical foundation for a consumer beauty/skincare shopping app from the ground up across AWS, Elixir, Swift, and Kotlin.

Yilu, Lufthansa Group / BCG Digital Ventures

Smart travel platform for Lufthansa Group.

Founding EngineerBerlin Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
  • Built native mobile architecture, CI/CD and release automation, Terraform-backed AWS web infrastructure, and iOS/Android features for Eurowings.
  • Helped hire and structure the initial engineering team through job descriptions, technical tasks, interviews, and Scrum Master responsibilities.

8fit by Withings

Fitness and nutrition platform, now part of Withings.

Senior Technical ArchitectBerlin Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
  • Architected a hybrid Apple TV fitness app that reached #1 Health & Fitness in Germany and 30+ countries and #7 in the US.
  • Built cross-platform mobile features across JavaScript, Swift, Objective-C, Java, and Kotlin.

Housing

Indian real estate search and transaction platform.

Team LeadMumbai Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
  • Led cross-platform mobile architecture and the team transition to React Native, built in-house release/CI/CD systems, and contributed to Housing.com's PWA.
  • Published the Housing Engineering article 'How We Built Our React Native App' covering architecture, release automation, testing, performance, and team migration.

Earlier Consulting and Startup Work

Bridg, 1mg, HornOk, Volkno, Meriad, and self-employed work.

Software Engineer / ConsultantLos Angeles / India 2015 - 2016
  • Built startup web/mobile systems across customer-data email tooling, real-time doctor consultation, IoT fleet management, and JavaScript/Java/Ruby on Rails product engineering while studying Computer Science at UCLA.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles

BS, Computer Science and Engineering.

Computer Science and EngineeringLos Angeles, CA 2013 - 2016

Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram

High School.

Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, MathNew Delhi, India 2011 - 2013