Nandu Jayakumar
Independent Engineer Personal Intelligence Systems at Sabbatical Break
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNandu Jayakumar is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on builder with 15+ years driving large-scale data, infrastructure, and AI initiatives across Meta, LinkedIn, Visa, Oracle, and startups. He has repeatedly delivered measurable efficiency and scale—most notably >30% fleet efficiency gains at Meta and multi-fold data platform growth at Visa—while leading orgs of tens to hundreds of engineers. Currently on a technical sabbatical, he’s building a privacy-first, reliability-first personal intelligence system that applies production-grade guardrails, auditability, and tiered privilege models to agentic AI. Comfortable at the intersection of product and platform, he scales forecasting, autoscaling, and cost-aware engineering practices for thousands of developers. His background blends deep systems engineering, cloud and big-data migrations, and applied AI/ML, plus hands-on startup rebuilding experience. Based in the Bay Area with MS from Stanford, he pairs enterprise-scale execution with a maker’s curiosity for building trustworthy personal AI.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
SIE Entrepreneurship, SIE Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBengaluru UniversityMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil
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Github Skills (3)
database10
guitar1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
junkumar/redbase
Apr 2011 - Feb 2019
A mini database implementation.
Contributions:96 commits, 5 pushes in 7 years 11 months
databasegraduate-school
junkumar/pactureflag
Mar 2011 - Mar 2011
Contributions:12 commits in 7 days
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