Hi, my name is

Jainam Patel

Computer Science Sophomore @ UMich COE

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Stage 3

Stage 0

Planting the Seed

Every tree starts small.

Reached 2023

Projects Shipped

Just getting started

100%

YouTube Growth

Channel Created

100%

X Growth

Account Made

100%

Bench Press

135 lbs

100%

Stage 1

First Sprout

Breaking through the soil.

Reached Early 2025

Projects Shipped

1 / 1

100%

YouTube Growth

First Video

100%

X Growth

20 followers

100%

Bench Press

155 lbs

100%

Stage 2

Seedling

Water it every day.

Reached Spring 2025

Projects Shipped

2 / 2

100%

YouTube Growth

50 subs

100%

X Growth

50 followers

100%

Bench Press

165 lbs

100%

Stage 3

Watering My Plant

Taking Root • Builder.

Projects Shipped

9 / 5

YouTube Growth

230 / 250 subs

X Growth

198 / 200 followers

Bench Press Goal

185 / 185 lbs

Build → learn → repeat

Stage 4

Branching Out

New growth in every direction.

Not reached yet

Projects Shipped

YouTube Growth

1K subs

X Growth

500 followers

Bench Press

225 lbs

Product Revenue

$100 MRR

Stage 5

Reaching for the Sun

Every ring builds on the last.

Not reached yet

Projects Shipped

YouTube Growth

5K subs

X Growth

1K followers

Mile Time

Sub-7:00

Product Revenue

$1,000 MRR

Stage 6

First Blossoms

The work starts to show.

Not reached yet

Projects Shipped

50+

YouTube Growth

10K subs

X Growth

5K followers

Mile Time

Sub-6:30

Product Revenue

$10,000 MRR

Stage ???

To be determined...

About Me

Building. Learning. Growing.

What's up!!

Hope you're doing great! I'm a Computer Science sophomore at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Right now, I'm focused on building products people actually use and shipping them.

As a kid, I loved video games and leveling up my characters. I'd grind to max ranks and loved the idea of improving a specific stat.

As I grew up, I started looking at my life the same way. Setting goals, tracking them, and watching myself get better, whether that’s lifting more in the gym or being a better brother.

But life isn’t a video game. It takes time to grow. Small goals can feel like an XP bar, but there's no filling it overnight and no cheat code that skips you to your dream life.

Real growth is slower, more like a plant.

It takes time, energy, and lots of care. A lot of it happens underground in the roots, before you can visually see anything.

I still want to grow fast. I’m just learning to be patient with it too.

As for some of my hobbies: I love playing volleyball, spending time with my 6-year-old sister, traveling, listening to music (especially Daniel Caesar + Steve Lacey + Malcolm Todd), and just having a good time.

Technologies I use

JavaScript

React

Python

C++

AWS

GCP

Railway

Supabase

Docker

Claude

ChatGPT (Codex)

Cursor

My Favs

Click to hear a preview of my favorite song from each album

What I'm Growing Right Now

System design

Full-stack product development

Growing a brand & building a community

Experience

Putting down roots.

Jump Capital

Forward Deployed Engineer Fellow

May 2026 - Aug. 2026 · 4 mos

Chicago, Illinois, United States · On-site

Selected as Jump Capital's first FDE Fellow. Built end-to-end AI tools and software for Jump Capital and its portfolio companies.

▸Jump Capital is a Chicago-based growth-stage venture firm currently deploying their $350M 7th fund, with investments across fintech, B2B SaaS, and data infrastructure

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Meet Jainam Patel: Supporting Founders through our FDE fellowship

Verci

Growth

May 2026 - Present

New York, NY · Remote

Growth and content strategy for Verci, NYC's 24/7 creative and tech collective for founders, builders, and artists.

▸1M+ impressions within 24 hours of launch
▸Helped grow Verci's X to 10K+ followers
▸Millions more to come — follow @vercinyc

Astrai

Co-Founder

Feb. 2026 - Present

Remote

Co-founded Astrai, an AI-powered scholarship discovery engine that helps high school students find local and obscure scholarships hidden across school pages, county sites, foundations, and PDFs.

▸Built an LLM-driven crawling and extraction pipeline using Firecrawl, Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase/PostgreSQL, and structured outputs to index 36K+ scholarships across 43 eligibility fields
▸Launched platform reaching 15K+ people, with 65 active students and 26 high schools onboarded by May

Integrate Healthcare (Tech Fraternity)

Full Stack Developer

Oct. 2025 - Dec. 2025

Ann Arbor, MI

Developed a full-stack hospital analytics dashboard for Integrate Health, a healthcare startup, leveraging React for the frontend, Spring Boot for the backend, and embedded Tableau visualizations to provide hospital administrators with real-time insights into billing, operations, and claims data.

▸Architected and implemented RESTful API endpoints using Spring Boot to handle data requests and business logic, integrated the backend with a PostgreSQL database for data persistence, and built automated ETL pipelines in Python using Pandas and SQLAlchemy to extract, transform, and load hospital data
▸Designed responsive React/Tailwind UI with embedded Tableau dashboards for financial KPIs and operational metrics; collaborated in a six-person team using Git for version control and code reviews

Make It Make Cents

Co-Founder & Lead Developer

Oct. 2024 - Apr. 2025

Remote

Identified financial literacy gap among teenagers in the community, co-founded an educational organization, and built a responsive website with HTML/CSS/JavaScript, reaching 30+ students through workshops while creating a sustainable digital platform for ongoing educational initiatives.

▸Led cross-functional collaboration between technical and marketing teams, developed content strategy and user acquisition goals while publishing educational blog content, establishing an integrated approach connecting digital platform with live workshop delivery systems

Projects

Shipped. In production. Private projects not shown.

profRater

AI-powered tool that analyzes RateMyProfessor reviews to provide comprehensive professor insights using Claude AI

Next.jsTypeScriptClaude AIRedisTailwind CSS

Code Demo

Blueprint AI

AI-powered college application assistant helping students with essays, college research, and application strategy

ReactTailwind CSSNext.jsAI Integration

Code Demo

Skyris

AI-powered VFR flight planning app built at YC hackathon that routes around FAA restricted airspace using A* pathfinding and explains routing decisions with Google Gemini API for pilot education

TypeScriptNext.jsMapbox GL JSGoogle Gemini APITurf.jsClaude API

Code Demo

Events

Good food. Better company.

I love meeting people, especially ambitious ones who are building things. So I host dinners that bring them around one table. I want to keep taking them to more college campuses and cities to meet people who are building their dream lives.

A long outdoor dinner table under string lights, lined with people smiling at the camera — Bay Area Dinner
San Francisco Bay AreaJuly 2026

Seven people around a restaurant table with neon art on the back wall — WashU Dinner
St. Louis, MOSeptember 2026

Want a dinner at your campus, or to co-host one together? Reach out.

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Jainam Patel

Computer Science Sophomore @ UMich COE

Planting the Seed

First Sprout

Seedling

Watering My Plant

Branching Out

Reaching for the Sun

First Blossoms