Jai Govindani
Global Chief Technology Officer at Stealth FinTech Startup
Bangkok, Thailand
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Top SchoolJai Govindani is a seasoned technology executive with 12 years of experience leading engineering and product teams across hospitality, fintech, and consumer startups, now serving as Global CTO of a stealth fintech in Bangkok. He has repeatedly scaled tech organizations from founder-stage ventures to corporate CTO roles, including multi-year tenures at Honest and Red Planet Hotels, blending strategic leadership with hands-on delivery. A founder at heart, Jai launched and led startups and held VP-level IT roles in finance, demonstrating an ability to align business strategy with robust technical execution. He still writes and ships code—contributing to open-source iOS tooling like the Natalie storyboard-to-Swift generator—bridging mobile engineering detail with executive decision-making. Trained in mathematics and computer science, he approaches product and architecture with analytical rigor and a bias for pragmatic solutions. Comfortable operating across APAC markets, Jai brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-domain experience, and a maker’s mindset to scaling secure, customer-focused platforms.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mathematics (Honors) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Mathematics (Honors) Computer Science at University of Mount Union
English, Thai, Hindi, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
storyboard10
swift10
ios10
ui-design9
excel9
excel-formula9
code-generation9
nsstring6
xcode6
objective-c6
uitableview6
iphone6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
krzyzanowskim/Natalie
May 2015 - May 2015
Natalie - Storyboard Code Generator (for Swift)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Jai primarily contributed to the `natalie` project by modifying and extending its functionality related to the generation of Swift code from storyboards. Their work included fixing issues with UI elements such as `UITabBarController`, adding support for scene-level segues, and updating the example project to reflect these changes. They also refactored some code, such as removing an unused array and unwrapping a view controller using optional chaining.
swift-package-managerstoryboardcode-generatorswiftios
honestbank/terraform-pagerduty-alerting
Oct 2022 - Mar 2024
PagerDuty Terraform Component Module.
Contributions:13 reviews, 18 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pagerdutyterraformterraform-providerterraform-moduleterraform-component
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