Summary
Jay 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.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University