Ajay Natarajan
Co-Founder at Roadrunner
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Natarajan is a product-minded software engineer and two-time founder with eight years of experience building AI and crypto products from research prototypes to customer-facing platforms. A Caltech CS/Econ graduate and former Robinhood tech lead, he shipped the company’s first blockchain smart contract and led crypto product development. He co-founded Athena, an AI platform that optimized college applications for over 2% of U.S. college-bound students and earned national media coverage, and now co-founded Roadrunner — Kleiner Perkins’ first incubation since Glean. His background spans high-impact internships and fellowships (Kleiner Perkins, 8VC, Asana) and mission-driven engineering at JPL and NUS, where his research informed real-world systems. Known for pairing low-ego collaboration with technical rigor, he thrives in small teams that scale ambitious ideas into measurable impact. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep systems experience with product intuition across AI, fintech, and applied research.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Online High SchoolCalifornia Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at San Marino High School
Github Skills (8)
organize8
near7
react5
nodejs5
typescript4
nextjs4
web-application2
webapp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ajnatarajan/CS132Projects
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:123 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ajnatarajan/hint-water-tracker
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
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Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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