Jay Lahoti
@jaylahoti
Principal Product Engineer at Openigloo who shipped an AI tour-scheduling chatbot and lifted applications by 40%.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
At Openigloo, I took an LLM-powered apartment tour-scheduling chatbot from concept to production and redesigned listing search with AI, increasing application submissions by 40%. I also consolidated web, mobile, and shared packages into a monorepo and continue to own architecture and delivery.
I architected a programmatic SEO platform with 190K+ pages and led the GEO initiative, getting listings cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. I also built SEO monitoring and an internal dashboard for indexation, traffic, and rankings.
Before Openigloo, I led engineering teams at Openigloo and Fraazo, where I helped stabilize a product through a $5M Series A and built Fraazo’s e-commerce platform end to end. I’ve also delivered customer-facing rental flows, client websites, and independent frontend projects.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Principal Product Engineer
Openigloo
Apr 2025 - Present (1 year 6 months)
Led a full product revamp, consolidating web, mobile, and shared packages into a single monorepo. Delivered an LLM-powered chatbot and AI search that increased application submissions by 40%.
Software Engineering Lead
Openigloo
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025 (2 years 6 months)
Led a team of 8 engineers, setting technical standards and owning system design. Stabilized the product through a $5M Series A and split a monolithic backend into microservices.
Founding Engineer → Engineering Lead
Fraazo
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022 (3 years 11 months)
Led a team of 20 engineers during hypergrowth. Built the B2C e-commerce platform end to end and designed an internal operations dashboard later acquired by Swiggy Instamart.
Frontend Developer
Flyrobe
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 11 months)
Built customer-facing rental flows in React for a fashion rental marketplace. Delivered responsive, mobile-first interfaces tuned for the Indian market.
Frontend Developer
The Minimalist
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 11 months)
Built and shipped client websites and web applications in AngularJS and JavaScript. Delivered across multiple concurrent client projects on tight timelines.
Frontend Developer
Freelance
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year 11 months)
Delivered frontend builds for small businesses and early-stage startups as an independent contractor. Owned projects end to end from requirements through deployment.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
New York Institute of Technology
Master's, Computer Science
2014 - 2016
Master's in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology, USA, completed in 2016.
Mumbai University
Bachelor of Engineering, Engineering
2010 - 2014
Bachelor of Engineering from Mumbai University, India, completed in 2014.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
IndiaAuthorized to work in
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