Summary
Jay Lynch is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 13+ years of experience building and scaling networked web systems, currently leading engineering at Google while having founded and led multiple startups and CTO roles. He combines hands-on expertise from hardware selection and embedded Linux to large-scale web architecture, with a strong preference for Python, Django and open-source solutions. Jay has a track record of growing teams and modernizing products to drive business growth, notably building product and development teams from single digits to robust groups. His background spans graph analytics platforms, media and agency environments, and international technical leadership—bringing both strategic direction and practical delivery skills. Based in Melbourne but active in the Bay Area, he still writes code and enjoys projects touching mobile, sensors, parallel/image processing and robotics. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who pairs systems-level thinking with entrepreneurial curiosity.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne