Jay Goel
Staff Software Engineer at Ramp
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Goel is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building product-first engineering organizations and developer-friendly systems, currently at Ramp after founding and scaling Scratch Data (Y Combinator S21). He specializes in data migration, integrations, and payments workflows—turning brittle, multi-API onboarding work into a one-click experience used to accelerate customer acquisition. Jay blends hands-on engineering and leadership from roles at Frame.io, Squarespace, and Rent The Runway, delivering reliable systems for checkout, domains, logistics, and ERP integrations. As a founder he shipped a product that customers call “magical,” shaving migration times from days to under an hour, showing a knack for simplifying complex operational problems. Based in New York, he pairs technical depth with product empathy and a background that spans CS, business, and even Juilliard evening studies, hinting at a creative approach to engineering challenges.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsComputer Science; Minors: English Business Administration, Computer Science; Minors: English Business Administration at North Carolina State UniversityEnloeY CombinatorEvening Division: Certificate in Core Skills, Evening Division: Certificate in Core Skills at The Juilliard School
Github Skills (162)
webview10
messaging10
openstack-swift10
message-queue10
cocoa10
rsync10
backup10
duckdb10
gtk10
cloud-platform10
icloud10
aws-s310
embedded10
cpp10
cloud-native10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
poundifdef/smoothmq
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
An improved drop-in replacement for SQS
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 22 PRs in 8 months
message-queuemessagingsqs
poundifdef/ClassicUPS
Feb 2013 - Sep 2022
Wrapper around the UPS API for creating shipping labels and fetching a package's tracking status.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 9 years 8 months
apifetchingstatusups-apishipping
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