Summary
Jay Gandhi is an engineering lead with 13 years of experience building and scaling web and data platforms across climate tech, energy, and high-growth startups. He combines hands-on engineering (React, Node, GraphQL, geocoding services) with people leadership, having led teams at Arcadia, Social Tables/Cvent, and Scope3 to deliver production systems that match customers to community solar projects and manage API/data platforms. A builder and maker by temperament, he has founded a startup, taught web development, and modernized CI/CD pipelines, showing both product instincts and operational rigor. His work spans technical strategy, team topology-driven reorganizations, and applied climate-focused initiatives through the Climatebase fellowship and advising roles. Based in New York, he bridges international affairs training with technical execution, bringing a systems-level perspective to energy and climate software. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous problems into pragmatic, shipped solutions.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSFS Science Technology & International Affairs, BSFS Science Technology & International Affairs at Georgetown University
Master's Degree International Economics and International Affairs, Master's Degree International Economics and International Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Spanish, Arabic, English, Italian, French, Hindi