Jay Zeschin
VP Of Engineering at Balance
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Zeschin is a VP of Engineering and serial founder with 17 years of experience building product and engineering organizations for high-growth startups from first hire to scale. He blends hands-on architecture and back-end development with people-first leadership, having built teams and technical strategy at companies like Highwing and Ello and now leading engineering at Homebot while co-founding Balance. Jay is comfortable across the stack and in customer-facing technical sales, compliance (SOC2 Type 2), and operational functions such as HR and IT—skills he used to grow Highwing’s org to 20 engineers. A longtime Denver tech community builder and mentor, he also contributes to open-source Ruby/Rails tooling (notably improvements to haml_coffee_assets), reflecting a practical focus on developer ergonomics. He brings a values-driven, agile approach to product development and a knack for translating complex data workflows into automated, user-centered solutions.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Psychology, BS Computer Science Psychology at Northwestern UniversityNOLS
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
haml10
coffeescript10
asset-pipeline10
sprockets10
ruby9
testing8
build-automation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
emilioforrer/haml_coffee_assets
Jan 2012 - Jan 2012
Haml Coffee templates in the Rails asset pipeline or as Sprockets engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jay focused on refining and improving the Haml CoffeeScript assets library. Their contributions included initial support for Sprockets, cleaning up dependencies and template namespaces, and removing unnecessary dependencies. They also made changes to the configuration, removing dependencies and refactoring the configuration object.
ruby-on-railshamlrails-asset-pipelinepipelinecoffee
jayzes/cucumber-api-steps
Jun 2011 - Apr 2018
Cucumber steps to easily test REST-based XML and JSON APIs
Contributions:28 commits, 8 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 years 11 months
rest-testcucumber-jvmtestingxmljson-apis
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