Jay Rogers
Co-Founder at Server Side Up
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Rogers is a Co-Founder and hands-on DevOps engineer with 12+ years building lean, bootstrapped products and client applications from his Milwaukee-based company, Server Side Up. He blends infrastructure expertise (Docker, CI/CD, self-hosting) with UX-driven application design, often personally shipping and rescuing Laravel apps and mobile clients without account-manager handoffs. Jay maintains popular open-source tooling—including production-ready PHP Docker images and Spin, a local environment tool used widely to replicate production—and has driven millions of downloads through practical developer-first solutions. He also builds custom AI integrations (not chatbot wrappers) and productizes developer workflows like Self-Host Pro and Spin Pro. Outside engineering, he’s an endurance athlete and aviation enthusiast who self-hosts the company site from his basement, reflecting a pragmatic, resourceful approach to engineering and operations.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology Infrastructure, BS, Information Technology Infrastructure at University of Wisconsin-WhitewaterWaterford Union High School
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Github Skills (40)
git10
build-script10
github-ci10
docker10
javascript10
scripting10
css10
bash10
dockers10
html5-audio10
automation10
php10
web-audio-api10
script10
dockerfile10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
serversideup/spin
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
🚀 Replicate your production environment locally using Docker. Just run "spin up". It's really that easy.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:98 releases, 2 reviews, 137 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jay's primary contribution centers around setting up and maintaining the "spin" project's infrastructure. They implemented an install script, upgrade mechanisms, and made updates related to the project's core functionalities. The commits demonstrate a focus on automating the setup and update processes, ensuring the project's maintainability. The modifications also included changes related to documentation links.
devopsdocker-swarmlocallydockerdocker-compose
serversideup/docker-php
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
🐳 Production-ready Docker images for PHP. Optimized for Laravel, WordPress, and more!
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:37 releases, 3 reviews, 242 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jay focused on improving the development and build experience by creating and modifying Dockerfiles and build scripts. They introduced new PHP versions, updated the base operating system, and added multi-arch support. The user also refactored the project structure, including directory reorganization, and optimized the build process by integrating Docker Buildx and customizing the error behavior.
docker-imageproduction-readywordpressphpdocker
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