Jay Kothari
Customer Engineer at VCIC (Venture Capital Investment Competition)
San Francisco, California, 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.
4 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 (31)
vectordb10
foreign-data-wrapper10
ai9
steroids8
backend8
semantic-search8
postgresql8
cli7
axum6
react5
clerk5
authentication5
typescript4
prometheus4
typesafe4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Jayko001/prometheus_fdw
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper for Prometheus Data
Contributions:5 releases, 4 reviews, 24 PRs in 1 year 3 months
foreign-data-wrapperpostgresqlprometheus
Jayko001/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
backendforeign-data-wrapperpostgresql
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