Jul 2026 – Present
Sojourn
An experiment in using AI for good. Sojourn is a new way to explore scripture, designed so you spend more time in scripture and less time chatting with machines.
trysojourn.app →
Christian & Entrepreneur
Hello.
I’m a Christian and an entrepreneur. For about thirty years I’ve built software with people I care about, launched a handful of start-ups, open sourced a lot of software, and spent 7 years at Google. Lately I’ve been trying not to be the greedy farmer from , and learning to be more generous.
What I’m focused on now
Learning to be more generous
Exploring ways to give more, and to help others do the same, through community, consulting, and a little software.
Generosity Board Member · Vineyard Christian Church
Board Member · Christhia Seva Mission
Nonprofit Technical Advisor · Consult Bridge
Faith-based Software · Sojourn, a new way to explore scripture
Selected work
Three decades of start-ups, open source, and product work.
Jan 2025 – Present
Sept 2024 – June 2025
Lattice
A platform which lets people without any technical expertise create applications.
withlattice.com →
Jan 2024 – June 2025
Wireshark
A better way to run wire, born from the seemingly simple task of mounting a television over a fireplace.
trywireshark.com →Jan 2017 – April 2024
Worked at Google on Gemini, Serverless and Identity.
Mar 2021 – Jan 2024
FIers
FIers (fi-ers) helps people reach FI/RE, financial independence / retire early, with a forecasting tool that models your finances and a budgeting app that syncs and categorizes spending using the envelope method.
See the features →Jan 2016 – Jun 2016
Joule
A serverless platform that automates deployment of Lambda functions and API Gateway configs. Every Joule is a forkable GitHub repo, deployed and updated on each push.
github.com/joulehq →Sept 2015 – Present
Elodie
A photo, video and audio workflow automation tool that syncs the file system with the EXIF stored in media files, organization without a central database.
github.com/jmathai/elodie →Sept 2014 – Sept 2016
Western Digital
Western Digital acquired Trovebox in 2014 to integrate our software into their MyCloud line. The Trovebox backend was built with multiple storage systems in mind and ported cleanly to the MyCloud NAS devices.
May 2011 – Sept 2014
Trovebox Acquired by Western Digital
A Kickstarter-funded long-term digital preservation service for media archives. Its core idea was decoupling data store from application logic, media seamlessly stored and migrated across 10+ storage options.
Read the startup journey →
Sept 2012 – Sept 2014
Shuttleworth Foundation
A three-year fellowship from The Shuttleworth Foundation, including a $1 million grant to build Trovebox.
About the fellowship →Jul 2011
Mozilla
Accepted into the first cohort of Mozilla's WebFWD accelerator and incubator program.
Mar 2010 – Sept 2010
The Scholar App
One of the first education apps on the Facebook Platform, letting students and professors collaborate without friending each other, with attendance verified by college email.
Mar 2009 – Feb 2010
PubliciTweet
The first direct-message marketing tool for Twitter, unique tracked links that measured social reach and revealed which followers amplified a message most.
Apr 2007 – Nov 2010
Textbook Revolt
The first peer-to-peer textbook exchange, later a rental platform, backfilling rentals via the BookRenter API and printing pre-addressed labels through Stamps.com.
Jan 2004 – Nov 2007
Photagious
Started long before smartphones and when Flickr was just beginning, ahead of its time with video support, drag-and-drop UI, and MySQL used as a no-SQL store. The first photo service to integrate with Blogger.
github.com/jmathai/photos →