Summary
Jay Cincotta is a seasoned full-stack developer and entrepreneur with over three decades of hands-on experience spanning assembly and K&R C to modern React and .NET stacks. He founded and grew Gibraltar Software, shipping developer tools like Loupe and VistaDB before exiting to return to pure engineering, and now focuses on React front-ends with .NET/Azure back-ends. Jay has led and architected mission-critical systems across industries—from nuclear training simulators and enterprise insurance software to SaaS billing, e-commerce, and embedded databases—bringing a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and cloud-native design. He’s comfortable moving between code, architecture, and product, and has a knack for pragmatic tooling (including a DSL for test data generation) that accelerates teams and DevOps practices. Based in Eugene, Oregon, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep technical leadership cultivated since the 1980s.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland