Jay Gokhale

Jay Gokhale

Builder | ex-YC Founder | ex-Stripe

Experience

Owner.com
Engineering Manager
Staff Software Engineer
  • Rebuilt the marketing engine from scratch with fine-grained segmentation, 2x-ing engagement rates and enabling fully self-serve campaign creation.
  • Unblocked Owner's enterprise accounts for SEO onboarding, driving ~$2.5M/year in estimated incremental GMV.
  • Inherited broken email delivery (<50%) and fixed it to >99% in under a week before the next major campaign. Zero send failures since.
Mogara
Co-Founder / CTO · YC W23
  • Built entire stack from ground up: frontend, backend, AI classifier, and infrastructure.
  • Created system ingesting customer data from Github, Jira, Asana, and Box to automate R&D software cost capitalization.
Stripe
Senior Software Engineer
  • Introduced Stripe Organizations, heavily relied upon by large Stripe customers and many internal teams.
  • Built and launched Organization search in the Stripe dashboard.
  • Reduced re-onboarding friction by 95% by enabling reuse of previously entered information, affecting 10% of all onboards.
  • Increased reliability of Stripe's payment flows (10k qps) by introducing eventual consistent reads of stable information.
Index
Member of Technical Staff
  • Scaled Index's email service to handle sending 45K emails per minute.
  • Launched a data portal enabling arbitrary queries of customer payment data.
  • Created a multi-thread scheduler for periodic and one-off batch jobs handling 100s of jobs.
  • Built client-facing marketing tools including a new A/B testing framework and an improved recommendation engine.
Numenta
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.