Jay Sanders is a seasoned technical leader and entrepreneur with over three decades of experience designing and shipping high-performance, secure, and scalable web applications. As COO of a hospitality venture and founder of Mindtonic Media, he blends hands-on full-stack engineering—deep Ruby on Rails expertise, database and API architecture—with product definition, creative strategy, and marketing. He has led engineering and CTO roles to refactor architectures for massive scale, built ML-informed analytics dashboards, and managed cloud infrastructure for enterprise products. A multi-instrumentalist and creative producer, Jay’s freelance and music enterprises reflect a rare cross-disciplinary fluency that informs his product instincts and client-facing work. Based in Asheville, NC, he continues to advise startups, lead teams, and turn complex business needs into elegant technical solutions.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Economics and Mathematics, Economics and Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Asheville
Creative Writing, Music, Creative Writing, Music at Belmont University
Jazz/Jazz Studies, Jazz/Jazz Studies at University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Economics, Economics at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
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