Summary
Roshan Jobanputra is a software engineering leader with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, real-time data platforms, and cloud infrastructure for high-growth hardware startups. He led and scaled cloud and platform teams at Skydio—hiring 27+ engineers and architecting Skydio Cloud for fleet management, low-latency video streaming, and tele-operation—while also contributing hands-on to backend services, streaming systems, and infra migrations to Kubernetes. Prior to that he designed mission-critical spacecraft operations software at Spire, including a real-time mission orchestrator and ground station automation, giving him rare operational experience across airborne and space systems. Currently at Materialize and Jane Street, he blends product-facing engineering with deep systems thinking around event processing and multi-tenant SaaS backends. Based in New York, he pairs an aeronautical engineering background from Purdue with a practical habit of shipping prototypes into production and building diverse, high-performing teams. An interesting thread across his career is repeatedly turning lab-grade robotics and satellite software into robust cloud services used in production.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University