Joey Lai
SVP, Engineering & Development at StellarAlgo
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolJoey Lai is an engineering executive with 11 years of hands-on software product development experience, currently serving as SVP of Engineering & Development at StellarAlgo in Calgary. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at the same company—moving from Product Development Lead to VP and now SVP—bringing deep expertise in SaaS, data platforms, ETL, integrations, and full-stack delivery. As a founder of jlai Consulting and partner at Duck Labs, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade practices like TDD, Scrum, and DevOps to shepherd products from concept to production. Joey is comfortable wearing many hats—SCRUM Master, data architect, sysadmin, and QA—so he bridges strategy and execution while keeping teams focused on shipping. Outside of work he’s into startups, sports and cars, hinting at a practical, energetic leadership style that values performance and iteration. His background in both consulting and long-term product leadership makes him adept at scaling teams and systems in fast-moving, data-driven businesses.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologySir Winston ChurchillBachelor of Computer Information Systems (MGMT Business Minor), Bachelor of Computer Information Systems (MGMT Business Minor) at Mount Royal University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
574reputation
38kreached
5answers
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Github Skills (45)
javascript10
ios10
bootstrap10
css10
sass10
responsive10
html10
swift10
macos10
cloudflare9
google-workspace9
objective-c9
mobile-first9
dns9
cocoapods9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jlai403/COMP5590-Senior-Project
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:116 commits, 95 pushes in 1 year
jlai403/jlai403.github.io
Feb 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 12 PRs, 103 pushes in 10 years 2 months
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