parag A.

CEO

India16 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

YC-backed founder with a successful exit to Paytm.
Built TuringLabs.io, acquired by Mzaalo.
Mentors young engineers in open-source development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Infrastructure expert with a strong focus on open-source and scalable platforms.

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Skills

Other Skills

Open Source LicensingOpen Source IntegrationOpen-Source SoftwareOpen-Source DevelopmentOpen Source PlatformsMobile ApplicationsSoftware DevelopmentJavaSoftware EngineeringRapid PrototypingScalabilityWeb ApplicationsDistributed SystemsReactJSRuby on Rails

About

I’m a YC-backed founder with a successful exit to Paytm, and later built TuringLabs.io - an infrastructure startup acquired by the Mzaalo play-to-earn ecosystem powering gaming and Bollywood IP experiences. I also run one of India’s strongest open-source developer communities, mentoring young engineers and shipping high-impact code in the open. I’m always ahead of the curve, building zero-to-one products precisely where emerging technologies meet the future, and evolving them into scalable platforms.

Experience

16 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 8 mos

Current Experience

Dpsn

Chief Executive Officer

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

DPSN is a decentralized publish-subscribe network designed to provide a high-performance, resilient, and censorship-resistant platform for real-time data distribution for the AI native world. It employs a distributed architecture comprising multiple interconnected clusters, each consisting of a set of geographically proximate nodes.
Find more about us here: https://github.com/DPSN-org

Open sources network

Seed Node

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

OSN is more than just an open-source platform; it's a collaborative ecosystem where developers vibe and innovate via open source contributions.

Glowing.io

Co-Founder and CTO

Aug 2015 – Mar 2022 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Glowing enables hotels and guests to mobile message with each other via existing popular mobile messaging platforms. Our solution allows for hotels to appeal to millennials (and other digital travelers) as well as to the “silent guests” who prefer messaging as their primary communication channel. We help hotels deliver great service in-the-moment, which includes increasing guest recovery opportunities BEFORE check-out.

Paytm

Engineering Manager

Aug 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Tech ownership at Bangalore office for multiple projects and responsible for building kick-ass team. From Scratch to current launch, from zero to millions of users for Paytm Marketplace Bargain, Paywith Paytm and Paytm Wallet app built over Plustxt platform.

Plustxt ( acquired by paytm )

Co-Founder

Dec 2011 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Plustxt India is India's own text messaging app optimized for Indian languages. Plustxt allows fast text messaging in any Indian language - as well as language keyboards. It is also as fast as any other text messaging app. You can even respond to SMS messages, do facebook, twitter and google+ posts in your own language. We currently support Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati and Malayalam besides English.

Revelin7

Executive Director

Jan 2011 – Present · 15 yrs 3 mos · India

Revelin7 is the engineering center of excellence and incubation center for world-class products.

Gupshup

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2010 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

SMSGupShup was India's first largest social network on SMS. Helped gupshup scale its consumer as well as enterprise infrastructure.

Software Engineer

Jul 2008 – Dec 2008 · 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Worked in the core team of product SMSGupShup and built SMPP enterprise bus. Facebook was our first client and enabled wall to wall message at the scale using the enterprise infrastructure.