Man Worked Simultaneously at Five Companies... "Most of Resume Fabricated," AI Industry in Uproar

“Fired, Yet Working at Other Companies”: Industry Whistleblowing
Individual Admits, “Severe Financial Hardship... It Was Not the Right Thing to Do”

An Indian software engineer who has been active in the U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) startup industry has been found to have deceived multiple companies by holding several jobs simultaneously.

The individual at the center of the controversy is Indian developer So Ham Parek. The issue came to light after Suhail Doshi, co-founder of Mixpanel and Playground AI, recently posted about it on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

On X, Doshi revealed, "Parek is living in India and is deceiving people by being employed at three to four startups at the same time," adding, "I fired him in the first week, but he is still repeating the same behavior at other companies."

Parek's resume, which Doshi made public, listed experience at Dynamo AI, Union AI, Synthesia, and Alan AI. However, Doshi claimed, "It appears that 90% of the resume is fabricated, and most of the links have disappeared."

So Ham Parek
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Following Doshi's revelations, founders in the AI industry have begun sharing their own experiences of being affected by Parek. Nikolay Uporov, CEO of Fleet AI, stated, "He was always working at more than four places at the same time." Justin Harvey, co-founder of an AI video company, also said, "He was impressive during the interview, but we discovered it was a scam just before hiring."

On July 3, Parek appeared on the U.S. tech podcast 'TBPN' and admitted that he had worked at several startups simultaneously since 2022. He acknowledged, "It was not morally right, and I am not proud of what I did." He explained that "at one point, I was so desperate that I worked up to 140 hours a week, and being employed at multiple places at once was due to severe financial hardship."

Industry insiders agreed, stating, "This is not a simple case of holding multiple jobs, but a deliberate act of deception. This incident could impact the entire trust system for remote workers in the future."

Parek is currently working at an AI video startup called 'Darwin Studio.' He has stated that he will devote himself to a single job moving forward and expressed his apologies to the startups he previously worked with. He added, "I want to use this incident as a turning point. I hope to contribute to the ecosystem in a mature way, using the skills, dedication, and lessons I have demonstrated so far as a foundation."