Jay Yao
Jay's favorite part of tech is building the community of enthusiast developers, executives, hobbyists and students.
He enjoys starting partnerships (co-sell, co-market), conducting user interviews and bringing valuable user feedback to the product team and talking with like-minded folks on Discord and events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
About
Education
UC Berkeley
MS in Data Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BS in Electrical Engineering
Languages and libraries
- Python
- SQL
- Wolfram Language
- C
- NumPy
- JavaScript
Dev tools
- GitHub
- VS Code
- Jupyter
- Google Colab
- APIs
Community and ops
- Discord
- Slack
- HubSpot
- JIRA
- WordPress
- MySQL
Languages
- English (native)
- Mandarin (intermediate)
- French (beginner)
- Spanish (beginner)
Highlights
- Webinar sign-ups
- 1100+
- Newsletter readers
- 6000+
- Discord growth in 2 months
- +54%
- Key customer renewals
- 97%
- GitHub star increase in 5 months
- 55%
- Revenue growth
- +52%
Partnerships
6 partnerships including a major cloud platform and leading database providers.
Events
Hosted 200+ person events and invite-only dinners with leaders from a16z, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI and OpenRouter.
Gemini Meetup
I started this meetup with two of my friends. I built the community from 10 people at our first event to 200+ people at every event in less than a year (8000+ subscribers to our events).
Experience
- Mar 2026 – Present
Founding Sr DevRel and GTM Lead
Memori Labs (seed-stage startup)
- Started 6 co-market and co-sell partnerships
- Ran webinars with 1100+ sign-ups. Write the blog and a newsletter for 6000+ readers
- Grew GitHub stars by 55% in 5 months and Discord by 54% in 2 months
- Started a student ambassador program
- Feb 2015 – Feb 2026
Developer Relations
Wolfram
- Managed 10 Discord channels and answered about 90% of developer questions
- Customer success contact for 10 clients (6 enterprises, 2 medium sized, 2 startups)