Jake Zegil is a founder and CTO with 11 years of engineering experience building startups and developer ecosystems in New York City. He founded Fractal Tech to create social infrastructure and talent pipelines for early-stage engineers and has taken multiple ventures from pre-product to scale, including Tenet’s growth to a $30M Series A and founding data marketplace OpenSet. Equally comfortable shipping full-stack systems and running technical programs, he places engineers, runs bootcamps, and organizes hackathons to connect founders, devs, and investors. With a background that spans IBM engineering, security roles at Wells Fargo, and a molecular genetics degree from University of Toronto plus strategic management studies at Harvard, he blends technical depth, operational rigor, and community-building. He’s focused on AI interfaces, technical education, fintech and regulated tech, and is available for fractional CTO and advisory engagements.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Strategic Management, Graduate Certificate Strategic Management at Harvard University
Honours Bachelor of Science (H.B.Sc.) Molecular Genetics and Microbiology & Health and Disease, Honours Bachelor of Science (H.B.Sc.) Molecular Genetics and Microbiology & Health and Disease at University of Toronto - University College
Contributions:52 PRs, 86 pushes, 32 branches in 2 years 3 months
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