Summary
Aditya J is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, desktop platforms, and AI-driven search and retrieval experiences. He has led core product and infrastructure teams at Dropbox—driving retention-impacting usability and state-of-the-art RAG/ML search initiatives—and later scaled AI platform efforts at Pinecone before moving to lead engineering at Good Inside. His background spans systems-level work in filesystems, network security, and identity from Riverbed and Carnegie Mellon research through to production ML infrastructure and cross-platform client engineering. Based in New York, he blends hands-on technical depth (file-systems, security, ML infra) with strategic product focus, directly tying engineering roadmaps to business metrics like ARR and paid subscriber retention. He’s comfortable hiring and scaling teams across startups and hyperscale product orgs, and brings a rare mix of low-level systems expertise and modern AI/platform leadership. An understated detail: he pairs academic systems research roots with practical product execution, having patents and research experience that inform his approach to building reliable, high-impact software.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
IOS for engineers, IOS for engineers at CodePath
English