Jay K.

Current

I currently run the Observability business at LaunchDarkly[1]. If you want to get in touch, dm me on x[2], linkedin[3], or email[4].

Past

I was the CEO at Highlight, which was acquired by LaunchDarkly in March of 2025. We were building an open source[5] observability distribution.

Before working on Highlight, I went through YCombinator with a company called Reploy[6], where I built/designed the product and drove sales. At its core, Reploy used Kubernetes to schedule ephemeral environments.

Before that, I spent time working on machine learning infra at Deepmind, anti-abuse infrastructure at Google, and product at Handshake,

In high school, I was a captain of the 2015 FTC World Championship Robotics team[7], which started my wanderings in tech.

Investing

I occasionally invest in fellow founders' businesses. Most of these businesses are in the dev-tools/infra spaces. Some of the public investments I've made include OpenMeter[8], MagicPatterns[9], and Trigger.dev[10].