Jay Kothari
Venture Catalyst
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Kothari is a junior software engineer and venture-builder with four years of hands-on experience building scalable analytics and billing systems, open-source Postgres extensions, and full-stack features for startups. Based in Cincinnati and studying computer science at the University of Cincinnati, he has shipped production pipelines (Segment, Mixpanel, Snowflake), BI dashboards, and a RAG-based Postgres expert assistant while contributing open-source FDW tooling that attracted notable GitHub attention. Beyond engineering, Jay leads student venture initiatives—training teams for VCIC, performing due diligence, and running emerging-tech meetups focused on ML and quantum computing—bridging technical execution with startup strategy. He brings a rare mix of product-minded engineering, community leadership, and genuine interest in space and quantum technologies, and is actively seeking opportunities to scale his impact.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of CincinnatiCertificate, Quantum Computing, Certificate, Quantum Computing at Frontier Technology InstituteHigh School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at Kola Saraswati Vaishnav Sr. Sec. School
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (28)
vectordb10
ai9
steroids9
foreign-data-wrapper6
rapid5
react5
postgresql5
foreign4
jwt4
postgresql-extension4
sdk4
clerk4
axum4
authentication4
authorization3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tembo-io/clerk_fdw
Aug 2023 - Jun 2024
Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper for Clerk.com Backend API
Contributions:18 releases, 3 reviews, 50 PRs in 9 months
tembo-io/orb_fdw
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
A foreign data wrapper for orb
Contributions:12 releases, 2 reviews, 27 PRs in 1 year
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