Jay Steele
Software Development Manager at Google
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Steele is a veteran software leader and serial founder with roots in mobile and graphics technologies, currently leading engineering teams at Google's Kitchener-Waterloo office. He founded and served as CTO/President of Plazmic and Viigo—both acquired by Research In Motion—and later co-founded Velo, demonstrating repeated success turning mobile/communication ideas into products and exits. Jay blends hands-on architecture and product leadership across startups and large organizations, with deep experience in mobile, information syndication, and graphics systems dating back to the 1990s. Trained in math and computer science at the University of Waterloo, he pairs rigorous technical thinking with entrepreneurial intuition and a long track record of shipping practical, user-focused systems. An interesting thread through his career is consistently resurfacing at the intersection of information accessibility and constrained devices, now applied to organizing the world's information at Google.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Math, Computer Science, Math, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (13)
animate5
easing-functions4
reveal4
react4
transition4
react-component4
javascript3
react-spring3
easing3
animation3
dom3
typescript1
angular1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jaydsteele/f1telemetry
Nov 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
jaydsteele/f1telemetry_dart
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 months
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