Jay Zeng
Executive Director at CVS Health
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJay Zeng is an experienced software leader with 13 years of building and scaling engineering organizations, currently serving as Executive Director at CVS Health after senior leadership roles at Lowe's Innovation Labs and Lowe's Companies. He blends startup grit—having co-founded and served as CTO of Knock—with enterprise execution, driving product-focused engineering transformations and delivery at scale. Hands-on early in his career as a backend engineer, Jay has contributed to open-source security tooling like PHPIDS, showing attention to code quality, error handling, and robustness. He has taught at the University of Washington, underscoring a commitment to mentorship and continuous learning. Based in Seattle, Jay is known for translating ambiguous business problems into practical technical roadmaps and for balancing strategic vision with pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, B.S at University of Washington
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Github Skills (10)
error-handling10
php10
exception-handling10
security10
vim6
ajax6
javascript6
stringbuilder6
mootools6
xss6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PHPIDS/PHPIDS
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
PHPIDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is a simple to use, well structured, fast and state-of-the-art security layer for your PHP based web application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jay primarily focused on improving the PHPIDS security layer. Their commits addressed various issues, including fixing namespace typos, exposing log file names in exception messages, and throwing more appropriate exceptions. They also implemented CS fixes and simplified the detection logic within the codebase. The contributions indicate a focus on code quality, error handling, and overall robustness of the PHPIDS system.
php-basedintrusionartstructuredsecurity
knockrentals/walkscore
Jun 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 2 months
apipythonpython-bindingwalkscore-apibinding
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