India, July 3 -- Soham Parekh, an Indian developer, has sparked major controversy in the US tech scene after entrepreneur Suhail Doshi accused him of "moonlighting across multiple startups and scamming employers."

In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter), Doshi, the co-founder and ex-CEO of Mixpanel, labelled Parekh a "scammer" who had tricked several startups, including those backed by the Y Combinator accelerator.

Doshi revealed that he had fired Parekh just a week after hiring him, saying it was due to dishonesty. "He reached out privately and said he regretted it," Doshi noted.

His post prompted a wave of similar accounts from other startup founders, including those from Lindy, Fleet AI, and Antimetal. These employers described...