Jay Goss
Senior Software Engineer at Sentry
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJay Goss is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in streaming video and real-time broadcasting platforms. Based in Austin, he has driven end-to-end product delivery from architecture to launch at startups and scale-ups, most recently shaping platform reliability and observability at Fireside and now contributing at Sentry. He brings deep React Native and iOS expertise alongside React/TypeScript front-end migrations, CI/CD discipline, and a track record of reducing user-facing errors through performance tuning and monitoring. Jay often sets team-wide best practices—authored UI/style guides and testing standards that raised coverage above 90%—and balances pragmatic engineering with product-focused decisions. He pairs a nontraditional background in English literature with a knack for clear technical communication, mentoring engineers while owning hard engineering problems in live streaming. Notably, his work spans both client and server concerns, from low-latency rendering to scalable broadcasting infrastructures.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English Language and Literature, General, English Language and Literature, General at Columbia College Chicago
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Github Skills (75)
testing10
ruby10
automation10
android-apps10
test-automation10
fastlane10
android10
ios10
react-native10
javascript9
appium9
streaming9
automation-framework9
mobile9
codesandbox8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
firesidecollectives/react-native-video
Dec 2020 - Apr 2024
A <Video /> component for react-native
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 3 years 4 months
react-nativereactvideocomponent-video
jaydgoss/organize-imports-cli
Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
VS Code's 'Organize imports' executable from command line
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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