Shopify

Product Lead

Senior Product Manager

Angel Investor

Active:
* Aquaeye by Vodasafe
* Evalyze
* EverBond Interface Technologies
* HDAX Therapeutics
* Healthy Hippo
* Intellijoint Surgical
* KaleMart24
* Kenota Health
* MesoMat
* Mirsee Robotics
* ORA Graphene Audio
* OrderEase
* Pontosense
* Quip Medical
* Steadiwear
* ToroMatcha
* Trampoline.ai
* Vena Medical
* VoxCell BioInnovation

Completed:
* Little & Lively - Dead

Golden Triangle Angel Network (GTAN)

Vice Chair Board of Directors

GTAN is the #1 Seed Stage Private Investor in Canada.

Board Member

Grobo Inc.

Founder and CEO

Entrepreneur, Product Manager, Advisor & Angel Investor with experience building strong products and companies.

Bjorn Dawson

SecureAI Tools

A compliant platform for teams to use ChatGPT and ChatPDF-style AI tools.

Co-Founder

Borderless

Product Manager

Faire

Senior Software Engineer

BajaarApp

"Products Search Engine" for local bazaars. Part of Velocity Incubator in Kitchener-Waterloo.

Achieved about 40,000 monthly visitors, 3000+ product listings and 150+ conversations daily.

Failed to find the product market fit. As we learned, product discovery is just not a big enough pain-point for users -- it's an inconvenience rather than a pain-point. This showed up in form of poor user retention.

Learned a few things. Retrospective & Lessons: https://JayNakrani.com/bajaarapp-lessons

Founder

Google

Worked in Machine Perception team for Google Home and Nest -- responsible for extracting correct intelligence with reasonable latencies from pixels and audio signals using neural networks.

Helped build perception features for Nest Hub Max: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-announces-nest-hub-max-smart-hub-2019-5

Software Engineer III

Worked on Google Search Ranking—WebSpam team. Helped build a neural network spam classifier (SpamBrain); The classifier is used to demote spammy results for most search queries.

Software Engineer II

USC Viterbi School of Engineering

TA for CS455: Introduction to Programming Systems Design - Fall'15.

Teaching Assistant (CSCI - 455)

Software Engineering Intern

Google Summer of Code

Developed a crash reporting system for phpMyAdmin (one of the most popular MySQL DB admin tools).

Project on Google-Melange: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/dhananjay92/5757334940811264

Software Developer Intern (GSoC'14)

Institute For Plasma Research

Parallelization of Fluid Dynamics Simulations.
Using GPUs, we were able to achieve speedup factor of  ~6.2.

Undergrad Research Intern

Florida Atlantic University

Worked under the guidance of Dr Hari Kalva @ Multimedia Lab (http://mlab.fau.edu) on "High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Encoder Parallelization".
Made reference implementation of HEVC encoder faster by factor of 3.3 using OpenMP

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