Summary
Jay Zuerndorfer is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building embedded systems, mobile apps, backend services, front-end interfaces, and data analysis pipelines, now serving as Director of Computer and Electrical Engineering in Oakland. He combines hands-on firmware and hardware integration expertise with product-minded software development, having led firmware, app, and backend efforts at Koya Medical since 2019. His background spans academic research at Georgia Tech and practical co-op experience at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, giving him a strong foundation in both theory and applied engineering. Known for shipping cross-disciplinary medical-device software, he excels at bridging electrical engineering constraints with scalable software architectures. Colleagues value his ability to turn ambiguous technical requirements into reliable, testable systems that meet regulatory and clinical needs.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology