Jay Nielsen
Senior Software Engineer at Vanta
Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Nielsen is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building accessible, user-centered front-end systems and scalable architectures for companies like Twilio, Mailchimp/Intuit, and TruePlan. He combines a filmmaking-informed eye for human-computer interaction with deep technical discipline in React, TypeScript, Next.js, CI/CD, and WCAG-compliant design systems. Jay has driven measurable impact—like a SendGrid pricing redesign that added millions in ARR and a Twilio design system with 100% test coverage—and led migrations that improved security and achieved SOC 2 compliance. A hands-on mentor and process advocate, he routinely pairs early design collaboration with automation to speed delivery and raise team competency. Based in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, he enjoys turning legacy monoliths into maintainable, testable platforms while coaching engineers to become self-sufficient practitioners.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science Digital Media, Bachelor of Applied Science Digital Media at Utah Valley University
English
Github Skills (198)
sendgrid10
wordpress10
gatsby10
static-site10
advanced-custom-fields10
sage10
recipe10
travis-ci10
graphql10
react10
twilio10
laravel-mix9
algolia9
syncthing9
markdown9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
studio-drishti/gaze
Jan 2023 - Nov 2024
Gaze is a design system for Studio Drishti.
Contributions:32 PRs, 52 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 11 months
jnlsn/jnlsn
Feb 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:93 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years
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