Jay Swain
Engineering Manager at GitLab
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Swain is an engineering manager based in Los Angeles with over a decade of hands-on software experience and a track record of scaling teams and processes at GitLab. He moved from senior engineering roles into people-first leadership, focusing on unblocking engineers, improving efficiency, and delivering against customer-driven OKRs. Praised by individual contributors for clear communication and empathy, he blends pragmatic technical judgment with realistic scope-setting. Jay prefers working with smart teammates and balances time between high-level strategy and operational execution, trading Vim for Google Drive without losing his developer instincts.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Platt College-San Diego
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
datepicker10
react-component10
dates9
react8
react-dates8
javascript6
linkedin-api5
linkedin4
dribbble-api4
emberjs3
omniauth3
ember-addon3
oauth3
git-hooks2
api2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jayswain/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
jayswain/name-every-color
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
This is the code responsible for @colornamebot
Contributions:22 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
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