Jay Caines-gooby
Head Of Technology at Innovate UK (Technology Strategy Board)
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJay Caines-gooby is a veteran technologist and Head of Technology with over 17 years leading web and product engineering, tracing his hands-on web experience back to 1995. He combines deep full‑stack expertise—servers, databases, cloud, DevOps, UX and information architecture—with a proven entrepreneurial track record founding and scaling protoypes through fundraising and commercialization. At Charanga he oversees nearly all technical development and operations for a global music‑teaching platform now launched in multiple markets, while also assessing R&D grants for Innovate UK. Comfortable shifting between strategic leadership and coding, he has repeatedly turned early-stage ideas into revenue-generating products across interactive TV, mobile and web platforms. An “internetworker” by inclination, he brings pragmatic product growth sense alongside technical stewardship.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
2,496reputation
256kreached
30answers
9questions
google-analytics
top-5%
mp4
top-5%
regex
top-5%
Github Skills (164)
reverse-proxy10
approximate10
http10
ruby10
caddy10
security10
perf10
webserver10
extensible10
caddyfile10
acme10
golang10
byte10
comet10
schema-migrations10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jaygooby/memcached-tool-ng
May 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 3 months
jaygooby/build-nginx
Oct 2017 - Jun 2022
Fetches nginx and any optional third-party modules and dependencies you specify, such as openssl and PCRE and then configures and builds.
Contributions:1 release, 61 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 8 months
nginxthird-partydependenciesconfigurationparty
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