Kriti Godey
Chief Executive Officer at Mathesar Foundation
Oberlin, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolKriti Godey is a seasoned technology leader and CEO with 16 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams, open source projects, and nonprofit tech initiatives. She founded and leads the Mathesar open source project and nonprofit, and previously grew Creative Commons’ engineering organization—launching CC Search to millions of monthly searches and expanding CC’s contributor base from zero to 200+. Comfortable toggling between hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, she has shipped full-stack systems, migrated sites between static generators, and implemented backend Docker/Django infrastructure. Her background includes scaling teams at Ridecell and serving as an early CTO at CasaHop, where she built distributed, remote-first engineering cultures. An active open-source contributor, she’s fixed analytics in SPAs and led migrations that improved maintainability and community adoption. Based in Oberlin, Ohio, she combines product-focused execution with nonprofit stewardship and a knack for turning volunteer energy into sustained technical momentum.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Timpany Secondary SchoolBA Computer Science Mathematics, BA Computer Science Mathematics at Oberlin College
English, Telugu, Hindi, German
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
docker10
postgresql10
python10
google-analytics10
django10
css10
open-source10
dockers10
lektor10
vue10
html10
frontend10
admin9
bootstrap9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
mathesar-foundation/mathesar
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
An intuitive spreadsheet-like interface that lets users of all technical skill levels view, edit, query, and collaborate on Postgres data directly—100% open source and self hosted, with native Postgres access control.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:675 reviews, 805 commits, 352 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Kriti's commits primarily focused on setting up and configuring the back-end infrastructure for the Mathesar project. Their work involved setting up a Docker environment for Django and PostgreSQL, which included creating initial settings, URLs, and application configurations. They also worked on adding the necessary components and dependencies for running the backend, including code for handling data imports and defining table structures. They implemented and maintained authentication aspects of the backend.
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creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io-source
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
Source files for CC Open Source website
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 560 commits, 279 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Kriti primarily contributed to the frontend and backend of the CC Open Source website. Their work involved migrating the site from Jekyll to Lektor, a Python-based static site generator, indicating a strong understanding of both frontend and backend technologies. They implemented UI changes, added new features such as a Google Summer of Code project ideas page, and fixed code style issues, which improved the site's usability and maintainability.
creative-commonslektorjekyllsource-files
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