Jay Gokhale

Builder | ex-YC Founder | ex-Stripe

Experience

Owner.com Mar 2024 – Present

Engineering Manager (Aug 2025 – Present)

Staff Software Engineer (Mar 2024 – Aug 2025)

Mogara Oct 2022 – Oct 2023

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 2018 – 2022

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 Jul 2015 – Feb 2018

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.

UC Davis

MS Computer Science · MS Mechanical Engineering

UC San Diego

BS Aerospace Engineering

Coming soon.