Jaisen Mathai
Advisor at Fireroad
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJaisen Mathai is an experienced software leader and advisor with 18 years building product and engineering teams across startups and large tech, most recently shaping AI, serverless, and identity products at Google. As founder of Trovebox (acquired by Western Digital) and co‑founder of Photagious, he blends entrepreneurial product instincts with hands‑on engineering, shipping full‑stack features from frontend UX to backend metadata processing. His open-source work includes backend contributions to image/video metadata tooling and a lightweight PHP microframework, reflecting a pragmatic focus on clean APIs, automation, and test coverage. Now advising startups and investing as a limited partner, he pairs product strategy with deep technical craft and a knack for turning photo and media workflows into robust, automatable systems.
19 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering & Information Systems, Engineering & Information Systems at University of Cincinnati
Malayalam, Spanish
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
exif10
python10
apidoc10
video-processing10
css10
ffmpeg10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
html10
curl10
file-management9
user-interface9
ui-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jmathai/epiphany
May 2008 - Dec 2020
A micro PHP framework that's fast, easy, clean and RESTful. The framework does not do a lot of magic under the hood. It is, by design, very simple and very powerful.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:133 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 12 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jaisen contributed to the development of a micro PHP framework, focusing on features related to API interaction and form validation. This includes the implementation of a cURL class to handle API requests, the addition of YUI-based form validation, and the addition of methods for server-side validation and client-side repopulation. The user also refactored EpiCode to accommodate exception handling.
php-frameworkrestrestful
photo/frontend
May 2011 - Apr 2018
The official @github repository of the Trovebox frontend software. A photo sharing and photo management web interface for data stored "in the cloud" (i.e. Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, Google Storage).
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3366 commits, 11 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 years
Contributions summary:Jaisen primarily worked on enhancements and bug fixes for the frontend of the Trovebox project. Their contributions included significant UI improvements, such as making links in the photo detail page clickable and including additional features to the lightbox, and improvements to the upload flow in the UI. Additionally, the user addressed various CSS and JavaScript errors.
amazon-s3frontendphoto-managementrackspace-cloud-files
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