Jay Bensal
Technical Project Manager at MAQ Software
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Bensal is an engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and cloud systems, currently contributing to Narrative after earlier stints at AWS CloudFront, Curalate, and startups. A University of Illinois CS graduate with a Technology & Management minor, he combines production-facing backend work with an entrepreneurial bent—helping launch and recruit for early-stage student startups on campus. His background spans high-throughput CDN services at AWS to eCommerce content distribution and growth-focused product work, demonstrating comfort across distributed systems and user-facing platforms. Based in New York, he pairs large-company rigor with startup agility and a long-standing interest in sports and campus entrepreneurship that informs how he approaches product and team collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignLakeside School
Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
postgresql-database9
mysql-database9
gulp9
caching-proxy9
backend9
django8
databases8
newsletter8
caching8
streaming-data7
pelican7
rust7
sql6
python6
postgresql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
founders/founders.github.io
Aug 2014 - Mar 2016
Our landing page.
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 6 months
uiucgulpentrepreneurship
jbensal/maqsoftware
Feb 2026 - Apr 2026
current MAQ Software website code base
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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