Summary
Jason Rodrigues is a founder, operator and engineer with nine years of experience building consumer-first products and ecosystems that scale—having launched teams and programs reaching millions of users and developers and driving products with sustained 30–60% QoQ growth. He has led 0→1 engineering and go-to-market efforts, grown cross-functional orgs of 20–30+ people, and designed grants, accelerators and incubators that attracted 2,000+ applicants across 100+ countries and generated over $100M in follow-on funding. As an operator he closed partnerships and deals creating more than $50M in value, built a consumer identity protocol with 10 LTV/CAC, and bootstrapped businesses to high month-over-month growth. His technical roots include chip-level R&D at Texas Instruments—tools and IP still in use—and leading developer platforms like Celo and MiniPay that supported 15M+ users and 500M+ on-chain transactions. He teaches crypto at university level, reviews for top journals, mentors 20+ startups, and actively advises and invests across early-stage companies, converting over $25M of deal flow for funds. Outside product work he’s writing an open-source book on how not to run a company and blends interests in psychology, game theory and storytelling into his approach to building teams and products.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, EECS, Bachelor's degree, EECS at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Primary and Secondary Schooling, Physics, Chemistry, Math and Economics, Primary and Secondary Schooling, Physics, Chemistry, Math and Economics at The Indian High School, Dubai
Konkani, Hindi, Arabic, Tamil, Spanish, English