Summary
Arjun Nayini is a product leader and former engineer with 13 years of experience building B2B software across recruiting, construction, public health, health insurance, and law enforcement domains. Currently a Product Manager at Ashby after several years on their engineering team, he blends hands-on development experience—from iOS at PlanGrid to forward-deployed work at Palantir—with product strategy and team leadership. His background includes engineering management at Autodesk/PlanGrid and contributing open-source work like ReactiveLists, reflecting a taste for pragmatic tooling that improves developer productivity. Based in Oakland, he pairs deep technical fluency with domain-focused product instincts, often surfacing solutions informed by prior customer-facing engineering roles.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy