Jai Thirani

Jai Thirani

Chicago, Illinois, United States
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CEO @ Sero (backed by Y Combinator). We're building the next era of customer onboarding…

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Experience

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    Sero

    Chicago, Illinois, United States

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    Greater Philadelphia Area

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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Education

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    Y Combinator

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    Activities and Societies: Dean's List 2018-19

    Focused on machine learning and building scalable systems

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    Activities and Societies: Dean's List 2018-19

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    Activities and Societies: School House Captain; State level basketball, squash and karate teams; Debate team

    CBSE Science stream (12th Grade Examination) : 94%
    CBSE (10th Grade Examination) : 94.2%

Courses

  • Algorithms

    CIS320

  • Data Science, Statistics and Machine Learning

    PHYS360

  • Data Structures and Algorithms

    CIS121

  • Intro to Machine Learning

    CIS419

  • Introduction to Computer Architecture

    CIS240

  • Introduction to Financial Accounting

    ACCT101

  • Managerial Accounting

    ACCT102

  • Probability

    STAT430

  • Scalability and Cloud Computing

    NETS121

  • Statistical Inference

    STAT431

  • iOS Application Development

    CIS195

Projects

  • Textbook Exchange App

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    1) Users with a '.upenn.edu' email could buy and sell books
    2) Users could chat with each other and decide the final sale.
    3) The database and login is handled on Firebase.

  • Full-stack mini Facbebook

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    1) Had a Facebook style 'Newsfeed' and 'My Profile' which updated dynamically
    2) Could visualise the whole network and chat with users
    3) Used Hadoop MapReduce on an adsorption algorithm to generate most suitable recommendations
    The web portal was hosted on EC2, database was created on DynamoDB, the application was written in Node.js and the frontend was built using HTML, CSS and Javascript and embellished with Bootstrap. The MapReduce was run on Amazon S3.

Honors & Awards

  • Dean's List

    The University of Pennsylvania

  • 'Informa: Best Hot Technology Predictor'

    Informa

    Built a technological trend predictor at YHack 2018.
    1) Aggregated data from crowdfunding platforms like 'Kickstarter' and 'Indiegogo' which consisted of pledges, % of fulfilment, total time of funding, etc.
    2) Analysed data using statistical models on PyDev
    3) Most accurately predicted past and future trends

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Professional working proficiency

  • Marathi

    Limited working proficiency

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