Jake Day
Director Of Technology at Nine by Six
Maryville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJake Day is a seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience architecting and delivering full-stack software solutions, currently serving as Director of Technology at Nine by Six after a long tenure as Solutions Architect Lead for Financial Services at Clayton Homes. He blends hands-on engineering—spanning web, app, and kernel-level back-end work—with strategic planning and team leadership to drive product and operational outcomes in the real estate and financial services spaces. Jake’s technical breadth includes low-level Linux kernel contributions to enable Intel Precise Touch & Stylus support on Surface devices, demonstrating comfort with systems-level engineering beyond typical application stacks. With an associate degree combining business management and computer programming, he pairs practical technical depth with business-minded decision making to translate complex requirements into reliable, production-ready systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Business Management and Computer Programming, Associate’s Degree, Business Management and Computer Programming at Ivy Tech Community College
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Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jakeday/linux-surface
Aug 2017 - May 2021
Linux Kernel for Surface Devices
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 releases, 347 commits, 39 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jake's commits primarily focused on enabling Intel Precise Touch & Stylus (IPTS) support for Surface devices. They implemented the necessary kernel-level infrastructure and made changes to the i915 driver to incorporate the IPTS functionality. Furthermore, the commits added support for multi-touch and pen features and configured the kernel to correctly handle the features.
kernellinux-kernellinuxsurface
jakeday/pi-btc-weather-clock
May 2016 - Aug 2020
Raspberry Pi BTC Weather Clock
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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