Sandeep Jain (Entrepreneur)
Sandeep Jain (born March 27, 1967) is an American technology executive and entrepreneur. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of OpsHub Inc., a Software company based in Palo Alto, California. Jain previously founded Viquity Corp and held technical leadership positions at Oracle Corporation and Openwave Systems.
Early life and education
Jain was born in Gurugram, India, and spent his early years in Amritsar, where he attended Arun Rashmi Sainik School. He later attended Kendriya Vidyalaya from the sixth grade onward. Growing up in an environment with several entrepreneurs in his extended family, Jain developed an early interest in innovation and creative problem-solving.
He earned a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) in 1988. He subsequently moved to the United States to attend the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, completing a Master of Science in Computer Science in 1989. Between 1991 and 1994, he obtained an MBA in Leadership and Entrepreneurship from Santa Clara University.
Career
Jain’s professional career has been centered in Silicon Valley, focusing on enterprise technology and software infrastructure.
Oracle Corporation
From 1989 to 1998, Jain worked at Oracle Corporation in various management and technical leadership roles within the Oracle Database groups. His work involved the architectural management of Replication and Advanced Queuing projects, as well as performance and scalability improvements for the Oracle Database Server. During this time, he represented Oracle on the TPC-C subcommittee of the Transaction Processing Performance Council and was awarded six patents.
Viquity Corp
In 1998, Jain founded Viquity Corp, a provider of infrastructure for automating B2B transactions. Serving as CEO until 2001, he led the company in raising approximately $30 million in venture funding from investors including Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Atlas Venture, and JK&B Capital.
Openwave Systems
In 2001, Jain joined Openwave Systems as Senior Director and Product Owner. He managed the mobile products line, including device management, download management, and synchronization products, until 2003.
OpsHub Inc.
Jain founded OpsHub Inc. in 2004 and serves as its CEO. The company develops tools for data integration, migration, and application lifecycle management (ALM). He has guided the development of core products such as the OpsHub Migration Manager (OMM), OpsHub Integration Manager (OIM), and the OpsHub Data Bridge (CleverDev).
Recognition and mentorship
Jain is active in mentorship within the technology sector. Since 2010, he has served as the Chair of IIT Mentors, a program for alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology. He has been a member of the Board of Advisors for Astia since 2004 and an advisor and coach for IIT Startups since 2021.
Personal life
Jain resides in the Silicon Valley region with his wife, Jyoti K Jain, an educationist. Their son, Kush Jain (born in 2000), is a researcher in artificial intelligence (AI) who earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and currently works at Mistral AI.
In his leisure time, Jain is an avid photographer with an interest in capturing candid, nature and landscapes.