Jay Khatri

Jay Khatri is the Head of the Observability Business at LaunchDarkly, an enterprise feature management platform previously valued at over $2.2 billion. He assumed this executive position in March 2025 following LaunchDarkly's strategic acquisition of Highlight, an open-source full-stack observability platform where he served as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer from 2021 to 2025. Khatri originally launched Highlight through the Y Combinator Winter 2021 accelerator cohort, successfully scaling the software startup to provide session replay and error tracking tools for global engineering teams. In his current capacity, he oversees the technical integration of Highlight's architecture into LaunchDarkly's broader product suite and directs the commercial expansion of their new system monitoring capabilities. Khatri's professional career focus remains centered on advancing frontend observability, developing open-source software, and building scalable business-to-business developer tools for the modern engineering ecosystem.