Jay Alden
Software Engineer - Google Home Analytics
California, United States
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Top SchoolJay Alden is a software engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently driving analytics and data-platform engineering for Google Home, Chromecast, and Nest ecosystems. He combines deep systems design with product and partner-facing work, having directly supported multimillion-dollar contracts and revenue through secure partner dashboards and regulated healthcare integrations. Jay has a track record of improving customer outcomes at scale—most notably increasing setup success by 4% across 700K daily activations and eliminating $2M/year in contractor costs by modernizing data infrastructure. Comfortable operating at the intersection of engineering, privacy, and business, he has led Vertex AI efforts for healthcare and standardized observability and logging under strict compliance constraints. A mathematician by training (Reed College), he brings rigorous problem-solving to reliability and analytics challenges and frequently serves as the go-to engineer for complex cross-system incidents.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics at Reed CollegeThe Thacher School
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Github Skills (7)
android-app7
android5
kotlin5
android-development4
google-analytics4
google3
analytics2
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Github contributions (5)
udacity/google-play-services
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
JayHarman/Project-Descriptions-for-Review
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 month
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