Summary
Jourdan Bul-lalayao is an engineering generalist with 11 years of experience building products across pre-seed startups and growth-stage companies, currently shipping analytics and reporting solutions for (re)insurance at Korra and Ledger Investing. He’s launched products from zero lines of code to millions of users, led backend and full-stack efforts at early-stage companies, and scaled user-facing features and acquisition funnels at Wag!. A former founder and CTO who’s weathered startup failure and accelerator interviews, Jourdan pairs entrepreneurial grit with hands-on execution across Ruby on Rails, mobile APIs, AWS services, and SEO-driven content platforms. He also habitually prototypes revenue-generating side projects, bringing a product-minded curiosity and practical growth instincts to engineering teams. Based in San Francisco, he’s comfortable contributing at any stage—from founding engineer to senior architect—bringing a rare combination of product, exec-level perspective, and resiliency.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of San Francisco
Udacity
Udemy
Code School
Stanford University
English, Japanese