Summary
Jax Law is a seasoned engineer-turned-aviator with 16 years of software and cloud platform experience and a current career as a First Officer for Southwest Airlines. He previously spent a decade building large-scale data systems and developer platforms at Google, RockMelt, Ning and Oracle, and helped create analytics, provisioning and real-time services used at scale. Jax also operates as a multi-credential flight instructor (CFI/CFII/MEI) and is type-rated in B-737, A320 and CE525, blending operational aviation expertise with systems thinking. Based in Palo Alto, he has a hands-on history of founding technical solutions—from Hadoop and time-series systems to URL shorteners and service discovery frameworks—paired with real-world aircraft acquisition and transition training. That rare combination of low-level engineering and cockpit discipline makes him equally comfortable debugging distributed systems or managing complex flight operations. He holds a BEng in Computer Engineering from the University of Hong Kong.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)