Engineer · Founder · Builds and scales

I BUILD THE THING.

Engineer and founder. I co-founded two companies, scaled one to 10,000+ users with no outside funding, and now bring that same bias for building and delivering to product, strategy, and sustainability.

Based in Sweden. Open across Europe.

0 Users built and scaled
0 Projects delivered across 8 countries
0 Companies co-founded
0 Circularity framework from a Toyota thesis
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I started building things before I studied how to. At 22 I co-founded Boxall, a hyperlocal delivery app in small-town Kerala, and grew it to over 10,000 users and $80k in sales in a year, bootstrapped, in a market everyone said was already locked up. Alongside it I ran Dodge 'n Burns, a studio that delivered more than 165 projects for clients in over 8 countries.

Five years of that taught me the part most people skip: an idea is worth nothing until it works in someone's hands. I came to Linköping for a master's in sustainability engineering to point that instinct at harder problems, decarbonisation and circularity inside real product development, where good intentions usually die in the gap between strategy and the engineers actually designing the thing.

I still build. During my thesis at Toyota Material Handling Europe I wrote a small internal web app just to capture the data we needed. That is the throughline: I turn messy problems into things that work.

Jai Krishnan Murali
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Build and scale

Founder-operator. Product from zero, full ownership, backend included.

Strategy and analysis

Turning messy data and stakeholder reality into decisions people can act on.

Sustainability and circularity

Engineering-grounded, from LCA to value retention, aimed at decisions rather than slideware.

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Education

MSc Sustainability Engineering and Management, Linköping University, 2026.

BTech Mechanical Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University, India.

Leading

President, Navitas Studentförening (35 people, SEK 50k budget).

Student board member, Linköping Science Park (1 of 8).

Startup mentor, Thodupuzha Development Forum Kerala (TDFK), 2022 to 2024. Three mentored ventures are now active businesses.

Recognition

Incubated at Startup India and Kerala Startup Mission.

Top 3 finalist, Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS).

KSUM Market Acceleration Grant, awarded among 278 qualified applicants.

Tools

Python, SQL, HTML/CSS.

Excel and LCA modelling, GRANTA EduPack, Adobe.

Languages

English (C2), Malayalam (native), Hindi, Swedish (learning).

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When I'm not building, I'm usually around people, music, a court, or a kitchen.

Jai with friends at the Linköping University letters
The crew at Linköping University

People

I'm happiest in a room full of people. Most weeks I end up at some kind of gathering.

Music

Spotify clocked me at 200+ artists last year and top 1% listener for a good number of them, a record among my friends. Billy Joel and Sushin Shyam lead, with Peter Cat Recording Co. and Osho Jain close behind.

Reading

Less than I used to, but I still pick up a book here and there. The Kite Runner is my favourite so far. As a kid I worked through most of Jeffrey Archer.

Sport

Badminton and cricket when I play, cricket and football when I watch. I follow both closely.

Cooking

I learnt to cook properly in 2025 and now pick up a new cuisine whenever I can.

Travel

A few countries in so far. The beach is where I feel most at home.

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LET'S BUILD SOMETHING.

I'm after roles where strategy meets execution, in product, sustainability, or anything that needs someone who can think it through and then build it.