Avinash Jain

Hi there! I'm Avi, a senior at Berkeley studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

I'm on a mission to make a generational impact through the products I build.

What I'm up to now.

Experience

Eat. Code. Sleep. Repeat.

Blend

PM Intern | 2021

Mapped the customer journey in the homebuying process, led customer interviews and discovered opportunities for Blend to innovate in. Built frameworks to analyze these ideas and wrote specs on the most compelling ones.

TigerTalk

CTO & Co-Founder | 2020 - 2021

Designed, developed and scaled an AI communication coaching startup combining human feedback with AI. Sold our platform to speech & debate teams, individual coaches and training firms. Analyzed both audio and video with coach-inputted timestamped feedback on serverless architecture.

Stats: $30K+ in beta revenue. 2,500+ speeches analyzed. 300+ user interviews. $1,500 MRR.

Cal Hacks

Executive Director, General Director | 2019 - 2021

Led Cal Hacks, the world's largest collegiate hackathon during the pandemic. Organized a 26-director team to launch two brand-new virtual initiatives, hack:now and Hack Month. Formed a family, made lifelong friends.

Stats: [hack:now] 2,500 hackers. 90+ countries. 200+ submissions. In just 4 weeks.

Amazon

SDE Intern | 2020

Wrote back-end algorithms to automatically extrapolate insights from big data through data modelling and inference on the Amazon Ads team.

Apple

SWE Intern | 2019

Contributed to the iOS team on Apple News, building features for publishers to more efficiently create content for the platform.

Teaching

"Hey guys, Avi here. Welcome back to The Codex."

TheCodex

CEO & Co-Founder | 2017 - 2021

Taught students how to code through 15+ online courses and 20+ projects. Built a learning management system to fuel subscription based enrollments. Managed a team of 5 to scale MRR from $10 to $1,500.

Stats: 750K+ Udemy students. 60K+ YouTube subscribers. 200+ hours of recorded content. 10K+ users.

CS 170

Undergraduate Student Instructor | 2020 - 2021

Taught CS 170 - efficient algorithms and intractable problems. Launched and led The Production Company, a 12-person TA team to create weekly 170 videos.

Cubstart

Lead Instructor | 2019 - 2020

Wrote iOS curriculum for Cubstart, Cal Hacks' program for teaching beginners how to build. Led a 4-week iOS bootcamp and taught a semester-long decal.

Personal Projects

Code. Build. Hack. It's time to hack.

VAAS

SEP Project | 2019

Revolutionizing news consumption with automated video creation

E.V.A.C

UC Berkeley Data-X | 2019

Solving the issue of choosing a location for the next electric vehicle charging station


WINNER

Honda Collaboration

SyncUp

Cal Hacks V | 2018

Improving dancing through side-by-side video analysis


WINNER

3rd Place Overall, Google Case Study Collaboration, SkyDeck HotDesk Cohort

Talky

NWHacks | 2018

A personalized public speaking coach that analyzes and gives feedback on speeches


WINNER

Top 10 Overall, Most Popular Vote, Best Microsoft Hack

Iris

Synopsys Science Fair | 2018

An intuitive and functional Braille Learning Device for the visually impaired


WINNER

2nd Place Overall

Guru

PennApps XV | 2017

Bringing students high-class education and help through live-streaming technology


WINNER

Top 10 Overall, $1000 Grant from 1517, Best Education Hack

MedicAI

Synopsys Science Fair | 2017

The classification of medical problems through SMS and Machine Learning

Github  

WINNER

Grand Prize Winner - $1000

ICON

CruzHacks | 2018

A clothing classifier that helps identify other outfits and discover the latest fashion trends


WINNER

Project YX Fashion Prize

60Seconds

BASE Hacks | 2018

Storing daily memories through a simple phone call


WINNER

First Place Overall

PinPoint

SM Hacks | 2017

Generating the fastest path in a grocery store to grab your items and get out


WINNER

Best Android App

Rhythm

PennApps XVI | 2017

Bringing algorithmic stock trading to the masses