Jay Wylie
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Google
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Wylie is a senior software engineering manager with 13+ years building and operating large-scale distributed storage systems across industry and research, currently leading an internal Google storage service used by Search, Ads, YouTube and more. He blends deep technical expertise—co-founding LinkedIn’s Ambry object store and contributing core backend architecture—with strong people leadership, guiding cross-organizational replatforms and teams that won Google’s “Feats of Engineering.” His work spans production systems, industrial research, and regulatory compliance, including delivering low-latency serving paths and jurisdiction-aware solutions on tight timelines. Jay has repeatedly turned research into production (HP Labs cloud storage and erasure-code work) and made pragmatic product decisions such as sunsetting services to reclaim engineering capacity. He prioritizes developer experience and self-service, enabling clients to provision correctly while lifting team capabilities through mentorship and thoughtful management. Based in San Jose with a PhD in ECE, he combines academic rigor with operational pragmatism to solve hard storage problems end-to-end.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., ECE, M.Sc., ECE at Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.A.Sc., Systems Design, B.A.Sc., Systems Design at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (6)
data-storage10
javas10
distributed-systems10
system-design10
java10
json9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
linkedin/ambry
Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
Distributed object store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jay's contributions primarily focus on the development and maintenance of the `ambry` object store, a distributed system. Their initial commits involved the creation of core components like the cluster map and associated objects, indicating a focus on the underlying architecture and data layout. Further commits involve refining the cluster map manager, and making code cleanups including changing class names, creating file and JSON serde, and fixing some code formatting. These changes suggest a role in the core backend logic and system structure.
osgidistributed-systemsobject-storedistributed-object-storejava
voldemort/voldemort
Jul 2012 - Aug 2013
An open source clone of Amazon's Dynamo.
Contributions:266 commits in 1 year
reactnosqltransactionalamazonbig-data
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