Divya was born in a small university town known as Roorkee, UP, India. She was brought up in a family that focused on "education and technology" and from a young age was surrounded and influenced by engineers. However, her culture usually discouraged women from taking up a career or making a living. After graduating college, she married someone she knew for barely 30 minutes, a result of her repressive culture. A few days later, she moved to abroad to an unknown country where she knew only her husband.
Education
Even though at first, Jain felt the idea to be compelling and thought becoming an engineer would suppress her originality and expressiveness, she later came around and graduated from Aligarh University with a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering. A year later, she shifted to the US, and soon, graduated from San Jose State University with a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering. Divya was a natural when it came to technology.
Career
Divya started her career working at Sun Microsystems in 2003, then moved to a start-up called Kazeon Systems in 2005. Later, in 2009, Kazeon Systems was taken over by EMC. In 2009, Big Data and Hadoop significantly starting growing in market share and popularity. Jain, fascinated and interested by the underlying technology, decided to pursue some formal education in the same and completed a one year graduate course from Stanford in Data Mining and Analysis. Jain left EMC in 2011, worked for another startup till September that same year and then founded dLoop Inc. They specialized in providing Data Analytics for content. Their expertise included bringing different content together with a new algorithm. Soon enough, their accomplishments and success lured in Box.
Skills
Experienced and hands-on machine learning pioneer with product development foundation. Held different technical authority positions in startups and Fortune 500 companies. Proficiency in product innovation and sustaining the technological gap. Successful as an entrepreneur, intrapreneur and technical advisor for various next-generation projects ranging from machine-learning/predictive-analytics infrastructure and algorithms to world-class user experience. Frequent speaker on Big Data and Machine Learning and passionately involved in mentorship programs.
Interests and Philosophy
Divya's work philosophy is just 3 words: "Keep It Simple". Beginning with simple ideas and solutions and building on it by addition of ideas. She believes that a two-fold approach is ideal, making the app easy to use and user friendly and also making it easy to analyze and break down for developers and engineers. She believes that Passion is a huge component of the skill set she looks for in employees. She appreciates and believes in the idea of passion and desire to learn and grow in this field. As the head of machine learning at Box, alignment was a key concern and priority. This required efficient communication and Jain specifies that this is her most effective tool of getting work done. She believes, even with technological advancements, gathering information on the internet is much easier than getting relevant information within the organization. Another conflict that Jain is passionate about providing solutions to is the lack of women in the field of Technology. She endeavors to promote women in tech at Box and outside the organization too. Along with machine learning, Jain is passionate about the growing Internet of Things market.
