Rohit Datta is a founder and managing partner based in New York with a decade of experience bridging platform engineering, startup leadership, and venture investing. He previously built platform infrastructure at Apple and co-founded Formspree, where he moved from CEO to board member after driving backend improvements to email templates, SendGrid error handling, and reply-to edge cases for a widely used form service. Rohit’s background pairs a double major in computer science and finance from UT Austin with an MBA from Columbia Business School (Dean’s Honors, top 5%), giving him rare fluency across product, technical execution, and capital strategy. He combines hands-on backend craftsmanship with operator and investor instincts, focused on making developer-facing services reliable and easy to adopt.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Dean’s Honors with Distinction (Top 5%), Master of Business Administration - MBA, Dean’s Honors with Distinction (Top 5%) at Columbia Business School
The successor to this repository is actively maintained at https://formspree.io. Its source code is not available
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:286 commits, 92 PRs, 108 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Rohit primarily focused on improving the back-end functionality and user experience of the formspree project. Their commits included updating the website to point users to the Github repository, adding features to the email templates and adding email settings. The user also contributed to enhancing the error messaging for sendgrid, and handling cases where the reply to email field had issues.
Contributions:1 PR, 68 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
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