Jay Engineer
Lead Developer at TIME Marketplace
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJay Engineer is a Lead Developer based in Old Toronto with 13 years of software engineering experience and a recent focus on scalable full‑stack and iOS apps. He has driven measurable performance gains—cutting server load by 20% and speeding responses by 30%—while leading teams and shipping Ruby on Rails backends, React/Next.js frontends, and Swift iOS clients. Jay repeatedly improves reliability through testing and automation (RSpec, Cucumber) and has slashed query times from minutes to seconds in production systems. A pragmatic polyglot, his contributions span Node, Python, Go and SQL ecosystems, and he also contributes algorithm implementations across Ruby, C and PHP on GitHub. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise settings, he balances hands‑on coding with architectural leadership to deliver user‑centric, high‑performance products.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellUniversity of Toronto
English
Stackoverflow
19reputation
293reached
0answers
4questions
Github Skills (17)
algorithm10
algorithms10
data-structure10
ruby10
data-structures10
c119
php9
c179
testing8
passwordless6
routes6
ruby-on-rails6
mobile6
devise6
warden6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kennyledet/Algorithm-Implementations
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Share, discuss and learn about algorithm implementations!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jay contributed to the `algorithm-implementations` repository by implementing linear search algorithms in Ruby, C, and PHP. They added test cases to validate the Ruby implementation. Further commits involved code formatting changes (whitespace) and organizing the file structure, which improved the overall organization.
implementationsdata-structuresdiscusssharealgorithm-implementations
jay754/riddles
Dec 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:109 commits, 57 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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