Jay Meistrich
Chief Technology Officer at Bravely - Mental Health
Singapore
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Top SchoolJay Meistrich is a veteran software leader and serial founder with 11+ years of experience building productivity and mental-health products, currently serving as CTO of Bravely in Singapore. He founded Legend, a unified deep-work app (acquired in 2025), and previously co-founded Moo.do, demonstrating a consistent focus on combining thoughtful UX with robust engineering. Hands-on across the stack, he contributes to open-source tooling—improving Legend-State’s fine-grained reactivity, persistence, and proxy behavior—to ship performant client-side state management. His background includes applied research and prototyping at Microsoft where he helped initiate hardware-driven UX efforts, reflecting a blend of product vision and technical invention. Comfortable scaling teams and systems from prototype to acquisition, he pairs Carnegie Mellon CS foundations with entrepreneurial grit and a knack for subtle optimizations that make complex UIs feel effortless.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (13)
state-management10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
architecture9
testing9
architectures9
data-structures8
data-structure8
ajax6
php6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LegendApp/legend-motion
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Legend Motion is a declarative animations library for React Native, to make it easy to transition between styles without needing to manage animations.
Contributions:95 commits, 3 PRs, 57 pushes in 9 months
reactanimationanimations-libraryreact-nativedeclarative
LegendApp/legend-list
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 76 PRs, 231 pushes in 4 months
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