Jay Gokhale

Engineer. Founder. Builder.

I build across domains — from machine learning to fintech to restaurant tech. Currently an engineering manager at Owner.com. Previously co-founded Mogara (YC W23) and spent 4+ years at Stripe.

Experience

Owner.com 2024 – Present

Engineering Manager

Building the operating system for independent restaurants.

Mogara 2022 – 2023

Co-Founder / CTO · YC W23

Automated R&D capitalization for software companies.

Stripe 2018 – 2022

Senior Software Engineer

Built and launched Stripe Organizations. Joined via Index acquisition.

Index 2015 – 2018

Member of Technical Staff

Engineering platform later acquired by Stripe.

Numenta 2014

Research Engineer

Streaming anomaly detection and the NuPIC framework.

Education

UC Davis

MS Computer Science · MS Mechanical Engineering

UC San Diego

BS Aerospace Engineering

Writing

Coming soon.