David Jay
Executive Director at Fairplay: Childhood Beyond Brands
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Jay is an executive director and movement builder with 11 years of professional experience bridging technology, community organizing, and systems change from Oakland, California. He has founded and scaled influential communities—most notably Asexuality.org, the world’s first and largest asexual community—and now leads Relationality Lab to help organizations measure the impact of the relationships that drive social change. His background spans hands-on product and engineering work (Node, GraphQL, React, Rails) to designing high-engagement platforms and developer tools that prioritize moderation, identity, and UX. David has led mobilization and product strategy at mission-driven organizations like the Center for Humane Technology and Integrity Institute, translating viral public interest into sustained community practice, policy influence, and educational programs. He pairs an MBA in sustainable management with deep ethnographic research experience, enabling him to turn qualitative insights into measurable programs and APIs for impact measurement. Less obvious: he combines machine-learning data pipelines and gesture-sensor prototyping with grassroots strategy, a rare mix of technical craft and movement-scale thinking.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Sustainable Management, MBA, Sustainable Management at Presidio Graduate SchoolBachelor of Arts, Sociology & Physics Double-Major, Bachelor of Arts, Sociology & Physics Double-Major at Wesleyan University
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Github Skills (51)
javascript10
typescript10
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graphql10
journalism10
nodejs10
trust10
conversations10
react10
npm9
lerna9
monorepo9
python8
eslint8
socket7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
davidgljay/bulletjournal
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
A quick and dirty sms journalling app.
Contributions:15 PRs, 50 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 9 months
macosdirtyjournallingsms
coralproject/comments-lab
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
This is the Comments Lab. Try it at lab.coralproject.net
Contributions:295 commits, 67 PRs, 90 pushes in 1 month
commentslabcoralproject
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