Anand Jain

Co-Founder

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India29 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founder of CleverTap, a leading engagement platform.
  • Successfully led burrp! from inception to acquisition.
  • Expert in product strategy and engineering leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Telecommunications expert with extensive experience in product management and software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

EngineeringArchitectureProduct ManagementSoftware DevelopmentTeam LeadershipIntegrationApplication DevelopmentWeb ServicesTestingSalesWeb Development

Other Skills

Applet Game DevelopmentBusiness DevelopmentCRMCloud ComputingContent AggregationCorporate IT OperationsCustomizationData Center ConsolidationDatabasesDiscussion Thread Server DevelopmentFEO TechniquesHibernateJSPJavaJavaScript

About

I’m an entrepreneur and a product builder with over 30 years of experience working at large global organizations and startups. Currently, I'm the co-founder at CleverTap - the #1 user retention & engagement platform for digital first businesses. CleverTap customers leverage Data, AI and Machine Learning for behavioral insights, predictive segmentation, user experience optimization, and fully automated campaign orchestration. Our patent-pending technology was invented to solve for scale, speed and security. CleverTap is Great Place to Work-Certified™ and has been named Forbes’ Best Startup Employer in America. My previous startup - burrp! was founded in 2006 and acquired in 2009 by one of India’s largest media conglomerates. In the past, I've built packaged software, sold modems and browsers, assembled desktops, and founded a bird spike manufacturing business amongst other things.

Experience

Clevertap

3 roles

Co-founder + Product Marketing

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

  • Great products deserve great story telling

Co-founder + Product

Promoted

Sep 2021Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Product at CleverTap. Helping consumer companies unlock limitless
  • customer lifetime value.

Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer

Jul 2013Sep 2021 · 8 yrs 2 mos

  • Leading CleverTap's strategic initiatives.

Network18 media & investments ltd.

Head - Engineering & IT

Feb 2012Jun 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Responsible for architecture and engineering of Moneycontrol, Web18 technology infrastructure and platform development initiatives.
  • Introduced a video chunking technique to save 30% of VOD bills without degrading video quality. Details here - http://anandjain.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/reducing-your-vod-bandwidth-bill/
  • Implemented FEO techniques on moneycontrol.com to reduce page load times and page weight by over 25%.
  • Initiated project to reduce DC footprint by consolidating storage servers, which resulted in shutting down 6 racks.
ArchitectureEngineeringVideo ChunkingFEO TechniquesData Center Consolidation

Infomedia18 ltd

Chief Technology Officer

Apr 2009Feb 2012 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Responsible for overall development, engineering and corporate IT operations across Infomedia18.
  • Was responsible for design, development, test and deployment efforts for products like Burrp, Yellowpages and Askme. New Media group of Infomedia18 has now merged with Network18.
  • Led the rollout of corporate emails and messaging solution unifying all Infomedia18 office locations.
  • Architected and was responsible for the rollout of telephony solutions for Askme.
Product DevelopmentEngineeringCorporate IT OperationsProduct Management

Motorola india

2 roles

Sr. Software Engineer

Dec 2005Apr 2006 · 4 mos

  • Worked with Asia’s leading carriers like China Mobile, Chungwa Telecom etc. for the successful deployment of the SCREEN3 product.
  • Led a team of 12 developers for customization of the SCREEN3 product as per customer
  • requirements.
Software DevelopmentTeam LeadershipCustomization

Sr. Software Engineer

Dec 2004Nov 2005 · 11 mos

  • Led the design and development of the reporting feature for the SCREEN3 server using Java, BEA Weblogic, PostgreSQL and Oracle DB. This reporting module was used to gather various metrics like sales, traffic etc from over 200 million data records generated daily.
  • Participated in the customization of the core SCREEN3 product using Java, BEA Weblogic 8.1, SOAP, XSL, WAP Gateway, Push Proxy Gateway, for launch with the largest wireless carrier in US - Cingular. The SCREEN3 server offers both high availability and high scalability, serving about 10 million hits per day.
  • Designed billing integration endpoints using SOAP and XML/HTTP with Cingular’s third party billing vendor - QPass.
Reporting Feature DevelopmentCustomizationIntegrationSoftware Development

Burrp !

Co-Founder & CTO

Jun 2005Mar 2009 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • In 2007, burrp! was listed in the top 30 non-US web startups by Business 2.0/CNN - http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0707/gallery.web_world.biz2/13.html
  • burrp! got acquired by Infomedia18 (now Network18) in April 2009.
  • Responsible for product strategy, product roadmap and engineering.
  • Co-conceptualized, architected and participated in writing code for burrp! Local, know! and burrp! TV .
  • Used technologies like Spring, Hibernate and Struts for the development of a fast, responsive, scalable and a well-architected product.
  • Ensured delivery of products on time, while still following good development practices like codereviews, nightly builds, automated testing etc.
Product StrategyEngineeringProduct RoadmapProduct Management

At&t wireless

Consultant

Jul 2003Oct 2004 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Designed and developed the Change My Plan application that allowed AT&T Wireless customers to change their billing plan. The application communicated with the backend customer billing system via SOAP/HTTP to fetch the customer’s plan details. Two-way SSL authentication was used to secure the data transmission. This application used Velocity templates for presentation and was deployed on a cluster of Weblogic 7.0 application servers running on Solaris.
  • Led the development of a HTTPS based server-side application that interfaced through Web-Services, with a third party billing service provider. Used FreeBSD, JDK 1.3, Apache Axis, Tomcat and client SSL certificates.
  • Wrote a standalone Java application to process incoming XML newsfeed from Reuters and send out corresponding MMS alerts to subscribers, adapting the content to their device specifications.
Application DevelopmentWeb ServicesSecurity

Brience inc.

Software Engineer

May 2000May 2003 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Mobile Processing Server (MPS)
  • Participated in the design and development of the company’s flagship product, Mobile Processing Server (MPS), using Java 1.3.1, SOAP 1.0, Embedded Tomcat, WML, XHTML, XML, XSL, XPath, XF (Brience proprietary), JMS and SSL.
  • Led the design and development of content source plug-ins to fetch data from disparate sources like Databases (JDBC), LDAP servers (JNDI), Tibco (JMS), XML repositories (SAX/DOM) and HTML websites. The sourced content was aggregated, transformed and presented to the user after automatically detecting their mobile device.
  • Co-architected the IDE framework for the MPS server. The IDE was developed using custom renderers and models for various Swing components like JTree, JTable etc. It also provided out of box support for localization and internationalization.
  • Secure Collaboration Gateway (SCG)
  • Participated in the development of web-based administration interface for the SCG server (Reverse-Proxy) using Jakarta Struts, Struts Layout, Tiles and JSP.
  • Designed and developed all the built-in HTTP header filters that were used to deny nonconforming HTTP requests.
  • Primarily responsible for performing vulnerability and penetration tests against the SCG server. Wrote various test cases to test the server for buffer overflow, improper unicode decoding and
  • session hijacking.
Mobile Processing Server DevelopmentContent AggregationTestingSoftware Development

Software frontiers p. ltd

Sr. Programmer

Sep 1998Apr 2000 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Ahmedabad Area

  • Developed a 3-tier discussion thread server using Java 1.1.8, JDBC/ODBC, Servlets and JSP.
  • Worked on a project to develop an Applet game using Java 1.1. The top 10 scores of the day were stored in an Oracle database using JDBC. The applet was multi-threaded and used double-buffering to reduce flicker.
  • Developed a reusable web based application framework using Java (packaged as a COM component), ASP and Oracle database. This framework was reused for an insurance company as well as a travel consultancy.
  • Made a couple of on-site trips to the US as a part of requirement gathering process and finally to deploy the solution.
Discussion Thread Server DevelopmentApplet Game DevelopmentWeb Application FrameworkSoftware Development

Cyberworld technologies

Technical Manager

Feb 1997Sep 1997 · 7 mos · Greater Ahmedabad Area

  • Was hired as a sale executive and was given the responsibility to sell Multitech branded modems, VSNL Internet connections and Netscape Navigator browser to industrial and commercial clients. Achieved or beat all weekly and monthly targets.
  • Responsible for providing after sales support for modem installations as well as training customers on internet usage.
  • Promoted to the position of a Technical Manager after I taught myself to write HTML. Built webpages, created images and artwork using Photoshop, uploaded webpages via FTP for hosting.
  • Responsible for design and maintenance of customer websites. Used HTML, JavaScript, Applets and various photo editing tools like CorelDraw and Adobe Photoshop. Extensively used JavaScript to maintain interactivity on the websites. Customers included some of the biggest industrial houses in India - Vadilal Industries, Cadila Healthcare, Sintex Industries, Dishman Pharmaceuticals etc.
  • Evaluated various web-servers, mail servers, proxy servers and gateways and published recommendations for clients.
SalesTechnical SupportWeb Development

Compoint computers

Business Partner and Software Programmer

Oct 1994Jan 1997 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Ahmedabad Area

  • This was my first entrepreneurial venture.
  • Wrote an Advocate client management software in Foxpro 2.0 in 4 months flat without any prior knowledge of programming or know-how of FoxPro. Features included client meeting scheduling, high court hearing calendar, customer accounts, contact management, etc.
  • Being a small venture, I also used to manage sales and post-sales support. At one point of time we had a customer base over 40 High court advocates.
  • Apart from writing software I also used to assemble new computers and repair dot matrix printers.
Software DevelopmentSales

Education

Sahajanand Arts & Commerce College

B.Com — Commerce

Jan 1993Jan 1996

St. Xaviers High School

HSC — Commerce

Jan 1983Jan 1993

CDAC

Diploma — Advanced Computing

Jan 1998Jan 1998

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