Summary
Jay Fajardo is a serial venture builder and seasoned technology leader with over three decades of hands-on experience founding, scaling, and advising startups across Southeast Asia. As founder and CEO of PROUDCLOUD and Managing Director of Launchgarage, he combines deep full-stack engineering expertise with agile delivery and ecosystem-building to help startups and enterprises ship cloud-native products. He has launched and exited pioneering businesses—most notably Airborne Access (acquired by PLDT)—and continues to blend product, go-to-market, and engineering leadership in roles from fractional CTO to board advisor. Jay also bridges international innovation networks through consulting and ambassador roles, influencing policy and development programs across APAC and Europe. Notably, he repeatedly moves between building SaaS and platform ventures and mentoring grassroots innovation, making him as comfortable in a CI/CD pipeline as in shaping national startup programs.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
De La Salle University
La Salle Green Hills
English, Filipino, Spanish, Thai