He quit his banking job to start a space startup called Transcelestial [Video]

Rohit Jha calls himself a “huge nerd.”

He developed a deep love for computers, space and ultimately science fiction in his early years.

Jha spent much of his childhood and adolescence coding games on a secondhand computer, star-gazing through a telescope on his school’s rooftop and reading the work of science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov.

Today, the 36-year-old is the co-founder and CEO of Transcelestial, a deep space and communications technology startup that aims to make the internet more accessible by developing and deploying a network of lasers between cell towers, street-level poles and more, creating a fiber-like communications network.

Jha grew up in Jamshedpur, a small city that has since become a major industrial center in India.

While …