Jay Larson
Co-Founder & CEO at Asha
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Larson is a founder-executive who blends 11 years of hands-on technology and product leadership with a deep interest in management, finance, and workforce development. As Co-Founder & CEO of Asha, he builds B2B software that ties KPIs/OKRs to talent development and is pioneering competency- and responsibility-based reputation data. He has led international technical rollouts and custom eLearning platforms at scale, and previously co-created Tunapanda’s tech, curriculum, and open pedagogies that helped replicate educational models across contexts. His background spans startup fundraising and incubation in solar tech, real estate entrepreneurship during the 2008 crisis, and frontline teaching—giving him a rare mix of operational grit and educational empathy. Based in New York, he combines strategic vision with product-level execution and a long-term bet on data-driven professional reputation. An underrated thread in his career is consistently designing systems that scale human learning and accountability across commercial and social-impact settings.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Primary School, Primary School at St Faith's School (Cambridge, UK)Bachelor's Degree Economics (B.S.), Bachelor's Degree Economics (B.S.) at Duke UniversityHigh School Math Physics, High School Math Physics at Detroit Country Day School
English, French
Github Skills (9)
wordpress6
printing1
3d-printing1
swagger1
javascript1
math1
ember1
h5p1
cordova1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tunapanda/TI-wp-content-theme
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 38 pushes, 6 comments in 1 year 2 months
wordpresswordpress-theme
tunapanda/pandacracy
May 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 1 year 5 months
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