Udara Jay
Founder at UNMS
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolUdara Jay is a founder and product-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building startups and incubating new products, most recently founding UNMS after an EIR role at Dropbox. He led Clew from prototype to acquisition by Dropbox and has hands-on experience across the stack at Shopify, including OAuth implementations and mobile marketplace apps. Trained as a bioinformatician at Western University, he blends genomics research—assembling and annotating complex organelle genomes—with pragmatic product design, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective. He has built learning platforms used by over 10,000 users and consistently ships tools that improve digital collaboration and developer productivity. Based in Old Toronto, he prioritizes making technology accessible and delightful, guided by a simple ethos: make cool things and be nice. An uncommon strength is his ability to move between deep technical execution and high-level incubation: from sequencing pipelines to CEO-facing product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree (Honors Specialization) Bioinformatics (Genetics Computer Science), Bachelor's Degree (Honors Specialization) Bioinformatics (Genetics Computer Science) at Western UniversityGateway CollegeIntroductory Program in Molecular Biology, Introductory Program in Molecular Biology at Genetech School of Gene Technology
Sinhala, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (107)
infinite-scroll10
textarea10
wysiwyg10
command-line-tool10
javascript10
browser10
journaling10
cli10
rich-text10
text-editor10
draft-js10
slate10
editors10
contenteditable10
rte10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UdaraJay/Pile
Oct 2023 - Dec 2024
Desktop app for digital journaling.
Contributions:17 releases, 3 reviews, 31 PRs in 1 year 2 months
desktop-appjournaling
UdaraJay/atm
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.