Jay Mckoon
Research Scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute
Kennesaw, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Mckoon is a Research Scientist and seasoned technology professional with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, resilient web and enterprise systems. Based in Kennesaw, GA, he combines a Georgia Tech Computer Science degree with practical expertise ranging from large-scale document management serving millions of users to JVM-based backend development and dependency-injection refactors. His career spans research work at Georgia Tech Research Institute and production engineering roles where he designed fault-tolerant processing pipelines, optimized legacy codebases, and automated infrastructure across Windows and virtualized environments. Known for translating stakeholder needs into dependable software, he has repeatedly improved maintainability and team productivity by consolidating legacy components and mentoring peers on new technologies. A pragmatic engineer with operations experience, he brings both deep systems knowledge and a track record of delivering high-availability solutions at scale.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, High Honors, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, High Honors at Georgia Institute of TechnologyCartersville High School
Github Skills (19)
directive9
gis7
react-component6
openstreetmap6
react5
heroku5
ckeditor5
heroku-cli4
angular4
buildpack4
component-library3
cli3
react-components3
react-component-library2
ios2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dose-amigos/dose-amigos-ionic
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:71 PRs, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
flutterdoseiosandroid
mckoon/healthbam
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia Programs Map
Contributions:56 pushes, 80 branches in 2 months
georgiahealthymapprogramsgis
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