# Soham Parekh's Cold Email Template

> A high-converting cold email template for early-stage startup engineering roles.

A proven cold outreach template used by engineer Soham Parekh to successfully pitch an early-stage startup. It balances honest personal motivation with high-density technical credentials and direct live links to past projects. It provides a blueprint for reaching out to founders or hiring managers without coming across as generic.

## How it works

Structure of the email (to Happenstance, RE: Engineering at Happenstance):

1. Opening hook — personal and honest: 'I love everything about what Happenstance is doing... Building is the only thing I am good at. At this point, I want to be a part of taking something from 0 -\> 1 or 1 -\> 100. I just want to be heads down chasing that goal.'

2. Short pitch — 'Really loved what you were building at Happenstance and wanted to reach out to see if there were any openings for Engineers in the early team.'

3. Credentials in one dense sentence with links: 5 years of experience building full-stack applications primarily data-driven at DynamoAI (https://dynamo.ai), Antimetal (https://antimetal.com), Union.ai (https://union.ai), Synthesia (https://synthesia.io) and Alan (https://alan.app) as part of their early teams, helping scale internal micro-services to thousands of workloads and users.

4. Specific strengths paragraph — working across the stack: scalable backend systems with high-throughput data ingestion pipelines to production-grade React frontends; end-to-end systems at the intersection of UI (Next.js), Backend (Python, Node + Go based services using GraphQL and gRPC) and infrastructure (AWS + GCP over K8s) from building complex workflows, DAG visualizations and drag-and-drop component canvas for Union cloud to architecting the entire platform for Alan Studio and Synthesia.

5. Culture-focused close — 'I would love to be a part of the early team at Happenstance and define its work and culture. Looking forward to hearing from you soon!'

Signed: Soham.

## What it is for

- Pitch startup founders directly for unlisted engineering roles
- Condense extensive work history and technical stacks into a scannable single paragraph
- Structure an honest opening hook to stand out in a hiring manager's inbox

## Key points

- Honest personal opening focusing on builder mentality and stage preferences (0 to 1 or 1 to 100)
- Concise direct ask for early-team engineering opportunities
- High-density credential summary incorporating live company links and specific scale metrics
- Detailed stack breakdown pairing specific technologies with actual shipped features
- Culture-aligned closing statement focused on team-building

## Pricing

Free

## Details

- Type: Tip
- Category: [Productivity](https://xiry.app/topics/productivity.md)
- Topic: [Cold Outreach](https://xiry.app/topics/marketing-sales/cold-outreach.md)
- Open source: no
- Platforms: other
- For: Software engineers and startup job seekers reaching out cold to founders.
- Tags: cold email, job search, templates, engineering, startups

## Why it was saved

- [@lochan_twt, 28 January 2026](https://x.com/lochan_twt/status/2016366372784369843): Shows the structure of a compelling cold email: honest self-description, '0 → 1 / 1 → 100' motivation, a short pitch, and a dense, linked résumé paragraph.

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Updated 11 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/soham-parekh-s-cold-email-template

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