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.

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0 Users built and scaled

0 Projects delivered across 8 countries

0 Companies co-founded

0 Circularity framework from a Toyota thesis

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 that's easy to skip: an idea does nothing until it works for someone. I came to Linköping for a master's in sustainability engineering to aim that at harder problems, decarbonisation and circularity in real product development, where the strategy and the people actually building the thing rarely meet.

I still build. During my thesis at Toyota Material Handling Europe I needed data no one was capturing, so I wrote a small internal web app to get it. Same instinct as always: take a messy problem and make something that works.

Build and scale

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

Strategy and analysis

Turning messy data and competing priorities into decisions people can act on.

Sustainability and circularity

Grounded in engineering, from LCA to value retention, aimed at decisions rather than slideware.

Toyota Material Handling Europe

Master's thesis

Problem When a forklift reaches end of life, what it could teach rarely gets back to the people designing the next one.

What I did Ran an embedded case study across three TMH sites on three continents, conducted 23+ stakeholder interviews across R&D, operations, and compliance to map where circularity decisions actually get made, and built an internal web app to capture the inputs. Turned it into a decision framework for product engineers.

Result A framework for moving information from end of use activities back to product designers, so circularity can be considered earlier and with better evidence. It also created a foundation for further research.

Public framing only. No internal data or figures.

Jai with thesis partner Johan at Toyota Material Handling Europe — With Johan at Toyota Material Handling Europe

Boxall

Co-founder and CEO

Problem A small Kerala city had no delivery infrastructure and incumbents everyone assumed owned the market.

What I did Built and ran the platform end to end, product, operations, and a team of 8, fully bootstrapped.

Result 10,000+ users and $80k+ GMV in 12 months, churn down to 2.3%, costs down 20%, and the city's first tech startup, which opened a path for three more.

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Dodge 'n Burns

Co-founder

Problem Clients needed brand, web, and growth but could not stitch five freelancers into one outcome.

What I did Built a turnkey studio with a team of 18, owning delivery from scope to launch.

Result 165+ projects for 90+ clients across 8+ countries, including one funnel taken from $0 to $130k in 13 months at a $1.10 acquisition cost.

Linköping University

International Student Ambassador

Problem Prospective international students need more than admissions copy. They need to see the people, places, and small everyday details that make a university feel real.

What I did Created international student content across Instagram and YouTube, supported events and inbox communication, coordinated two ambassadors, and used analytics to adapt content for different student markets.

Result Helped grow LiU's international social channels from 8k to 12k followers and generated 250k+ views. Wrote, shot, edited, and curated content that gave prospective students a clearer sense of campus life, student stories, and studying in Sweden.

Highlights from My LiU Content Work

A Home Away from Home Reel about international students finding home in Sweden

Reel A Home Away from Home

LiU at 50 anniversary Reel about campus stories at Linköping University

Reel LiU at 50

Wes Anderson-style campus tour Reel for prospective Linköping University students

Reel Wes Anderson campus tour

LiU Formula Student video with student engineers and their race car

Video LiU Formula Student

Summer at LiU carousel showing campus life at Linköping University

Carousel Summer at LiU

Leaving the apartment that became home carousel about international student life in Sweden

Carousel Leaving the apartment that became home

Group photo of Jai with fellow Linköping University International Student Ambassadors — With fellow international student ambassadors

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

Product and no-code Webflow, WordPress, Substack, Lovable, Supabase, Zapier, REST APIs.

AI Claude Code, Codex, Perplexity, Google Labs.

Design Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, DaVinci Resolve.

Data and growth SQL, Python, Google Analytics, Meta and Google Ads, SEO, CAC and churn tracking, KPI tracking, landing page tools, social media marketing, sales funnel building.

Sustainability LCA (ISO 14040 and 14044), GHG Protocol and Scope 1 to 3, product carbon footprint, CSRD and ESRS, circularity, remanufacturing, refurbishing, R frameworks, eco design, rebound effects, sustainable product development.

Engineering SolidWorks, AutoCAD, CATIA, MATLAB, GRANTA EduPack, Overleaf.

Languages

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

Outside work, I am usually with people, listening to music, playing something, or trying to cook a little better than last time.

Jai with some of his closest friends at the Linköping University letters — Some of my closest friends at Linköping University

People

I like a full room. Dinner, a plan that becomes three plans, someone saying they will leave early and then staying anyway. That is usually my kind of evening.

Music

Spotify had me at 200+ artists last year. I took the top 1% badge far too seriously, mostly because my friends were watching. Billy Joel and Sushin Shyam lead, with Peter Cat Recording Co. and Osho Jain close behind.

A few favourites

Reading

I read less than I used to, but I still come back to it. The Kite Runner is still the one I recommend first. 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, and I have opinions.

Cooking

I learned to cook properly in 2025. Now I keep trying new cuisines and occasionally pretending the mess was part of the process.

Travel

A few countries so far. I like cities, but the beach is where I feel most at home.

LET'S BUILD SOMETHING.

I am looking for roles where the thinking and the building sit close together, in product, sustainability, or work that needs someone to make sense of the problem and then build the answer.

connect@jai-k.com