Flight log · New York City
LUV JAIN
CALLSIGN: CURIOSITY // TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER · FOUNDER OF CODEPOET
Software engineer with the soul of a mad scientist. Nine years flying through developer platforms, fintech, and one AI startup. This is the mission log: five planets, one chess puzzle, a rover with a message, and a shelf of stories. Poke everything. That's the point.
↑ a small solar system of my career. click or tap a planet to fly there.
Mission 01 · 2015–2016 · Seattle
Planet AmazonSoftware Development Intern · Alexa Machine Learning Platform
First landing. A jungle planet of graph databases and voice assistants, where I learned that shipping beats theorizing.
- Built an event-based microservice ingesting prototype data into a graph database, with ~100ms queries over the Alexa ontology using Blazegraph and RDF triplets.
- Built an ML-powered electron store for Alexa's knowledge database that later shipped in production Alexa Brain.
Mission 02 · 2017–2019 · McLean, VA
Planet Capital OneSoftware Engineer · Card & Small Business Technology
A ringed world of fintech at scale. Fraud platforms, event-driven everything, and my first taste of infrastructure as code.
- Designed Terraform architecture and event-driven microservices to onboard Walmart customers onto a fraud platform.
- Shipped an API + Spark workflow enrolling 20,000 new accounts for a new financial program on AWS Lambda and S3.
Mission 03 · 2019–2024 · Seattle
Planet OracleSenior Software Engineer · Access Control Ecosystem
The red planet. Four years of government-grade identity infrastructure, where 99.99% uptime is the job description and downtime is not an option.
- Architected the full-stack Identity Provider portal (React/Node.js) from scratch, standardizing permission management.
- Shipped permission-ownership transfer backing 99.99% uptime RBAC, with sub-100ms Postgres access checks.
- Designed zero-downtime canary deployments for government-grade services. No more manual babysitting.
Mission 04 · 2024–2025 · New York
Planet OptoLead Software Engineer · Opto Investments
An ice giant with a $300M ring system. First command post: leading a squad, aligning stakeholders, and making private markets legible.
- Led a 4-engineer squad delivering a fund-tracking engine managing $300M+ in assets, running 1:1s, roadmaps, and a code review culture.
- Cut AI diligence latency 7s → <3.5s by redesigning endpoint enrichment.
- Shipped a fund-tracking MVP in 6 weeks, replacing a vendor tool stalled for 9 months.
Mission 05 · 2025–present · The Frontier
Planet CodePoetFounder · you are here 📍
Uncharted space. Building an AI code quality platform solo, from user interviews to Stripe billing. It catches architectural drift before it becomes debt.
- Launched from concept to paid users as a solo founder; GTM modeled on Snyk and SonarQube.
- Replaced LLM scanning with a deterministic tree-sitter AST pipeline: per-scan cost $0.50 → $0, latency down 15–30×.
- Pivoted to architectural drift detection after user interviews showed devs feel inconsistency but can't quantify it.
Mission 06 · coordinates pending
Uncharted SpaceThe next planet hasn't formed yet
CodePoet is already on the map: planet five, live and shipping. But the telescope keeps finding new light. Whatever forms out here gets built the same way everything else in this system was: technology for the customer, starting from the customer.
If your mission needs someone who has been an engineer, a lead, and a founder, and who solves puzzles for fun, the channel is open. Happy to chat over coffee, a call, or a carrier signal.
Interlude · Strategy
The Knight's Gambit
Chess taught me the thing I use most at work: the best move is rarely the straight line. It also won me an Ohio state championship, so the knight and I go way back. My resume is in the vault. Guide the knight ♞ to the beacon ◆ to decrypt it.
🔒 VAULT STATUS: ENCRYPTED · awaiting knight at beacon square e5…
Interlude · Why "Curiosity"
They Called Us Curiosity
We spent centuries staring up and asking if anyone was out there. Then, instead of waiting for an answer, we built small brave robots. We gave them wheels, silicon brains, and names like Spirit, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Curiosity, and we sent them to other worlds to say: we existed, and we were the kind of species that wanted to meet you.
That's what stories are to me: signals we send so nobody has to feel alone. Every book on the shelf below is one of those signals. Honestly, so is this site.
"and they told us to tell you hello."from a post about the Mars rovers that I think about a lot
UNIT: CURIOSITY · STATUS: STILL GOING
arrow keys work too. the rover likes company.
Interlude · Signals received
The Ship's Library
Every long flight needs a shelf. Not all of these are science fiction, but all of them are signals. They shaped how I think about systems, people, and the future. Pull one down.
Pick a spine ↑
the shelf is judging you politely
Click any book to see why it earned a permanent slot on a spaceship with strict weight limits.
Final transmission
Open a Channel
// coordinates: New York City
// status: CodePoet shipping · inbox open
// avg response latency: < 24 hrs(my APIs are faster, I'm working on it)