Jeremy Jay
Director Of Data And Platform Engineering
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Jay is a data and platform engineering leader with 14+ years building cloud-native systems, most recently serving as Director of Data and Platform Engineering and previously as Principal Architect at Method. He blends hands-on backend and database engineering—contributing to the open-source Cayley graph database—with strategic cloud architecture and digital transformation experience across retail and research sectors. As founder of VirtualPosterSession.org and two startups, he has taken technical projects from prototype to sustainable revenue and live events with thousands of visitors. His academic background (PhD in Computer Science) and research experience in automated data integration and ML pipelines inform a pragmatic, data-first approach to platform design and team mentorship. A detail that often surprises peers: he couples enterprise-scale delivery with low-level datastore refactors, showing equal fluency in leadership and deep systems work.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Tennessee, KnoxvillePhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of MaineBSI Bioinformatics, BSI Bioinformatics at Baylor University
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Github Skills (17)
back-end-development10
leveldb10
graph-database10
mongodb-database10
go10
database-design10
mongodb10
api-design9
xcode9
uiscrollview9
database-management9
x5096
memory-management6
objective-c6
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cayleygraph/cayley
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
An open-source graph database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:9 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily focused on improving the backend of the Cayley graph database. Their work included refactoring code to use a registry interface for different backend triple stores (like MongoDB and LevelDB), demonstrating a focus on modularity and extensibility. They also modified database initialization and loading procedures, as well as updated method names. These modifications reveal a deep understanding of the database's internal workings and the various storage backends that Cayley supports.
cayleylinked-datadatabasegraphgraph-database
pbnjay/anydata
Jan 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
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