Jay Colson
Software Developer, Architect, Chief Architect, CIO, SVP at Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.
Leinster, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Colson is a seasoned software leader and architect with over 18 years of hands-on engineering and 15+ years of management experience, currently serving as SVP Engineering at Synchronoss Technologies. He has driven large-scale cloud and containerization efforts—re-architecting Personal Cloud deployments for Kubernetes—and led cross-functional teams delivering carrier-grade solutions for clients like Verizon, AT&T and BT. As Chief Architect and interim CIO he fostered DevOps practices, designed core frameworks for message-driven transaction systems, and built highly scalable MVC and workflow platforms used in telecom and number portability systems. His background spans deep infrastructure, middleware and operations—from SAN and clustered databases to CORBA, SOAP and modern microservices—giving him fluency across legacy and cloud-native stacks. Based in Leinster, Ireland, he pairs strategic leadership with an engineer’s curiosity and persistence, notably balancing executive responsibilities while publicly sharing a personal battle with pancreatic cancer that underscores his resilience.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Penn State UniversityInformation Technology, Information Technology at American InterContinental UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
Github Skills (111)
end-to-end-encryption10
pgp10
chat10
tokenizer10
vault10
openpgp10
keybase10
openkeychain10
discord10
psd10
png10
markdown9
html9
python9
ruby9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jcolson/token_frames
Mar 2021 - Jul 2022
token frames from TokenTool, converted from psd's to png's with the masking layer removed. Useful for foundryvtt (and the tokenizer module) use.
Contributions:21 releases, 52 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 4 months
pngpsdtokenizertokentoken-frame
jcolson/jcolson.github.io
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 140 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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