Jason Alco is a founder-CEO and seasoned software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building consumer and enterprise products from idea to scale. As Co-Founder and CEO of Popl, he leads a fast-growing digital business card platform while drawing on prior roles developing Linux satellite software at Boeing and leading full-stack teams for startups. He is comfortable across the stack—React/React Native, Node.js, Python, MongoDB and cloud deployments—and has repeatedly turned outsourced projects into in-house engineering teams. Jason has a track record of shipping shipped mobile apps (iOS NoiseBot), social growth automation tools, and production backend services, and he blends technical depth with product and growth instincts. A UCLA CS graduate and Y Combinator alumnus, he combines startup grit with engineering rigor and a knack for rapid learning and cross-functional leadership. An uncommon thread in his career is shifting between low-level systems work and consumer-facing product design, enabling pragmatic solutions that scale.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
W21 Batch, W21 Batch at Y Combinator
High School, International Baccalaureate Program, High School, International Baccalaureate Program at Berkeley High School
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