Summary
Raymond Jia is a seasoned founder and full-stack engineer with over 11 years building product-focused teams and hands-on systems across voice, mobile, and web platforms. He founded Savvy Stack to deliver Alexa skills, cross-platform mobile apps, and robust backend APIs, drawing on prior exits and leadership as Founder/CTO of Jarvus and Chief Engineer at textPlus. His background spans low-level performance work (OpenGL ES photo filters), realtime communications (WebRTC VoIP apps), and scalable cloud architectures on AWS and PostGIS-powered geo services. Comfortable from database schema design to device-level voice integrations, he blends entrepreneurial drive with deep engineering craft. Based in Covina, CA, he has a track record of shipping commercially successful products and turning research prototypes into production systems. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate complex platform capabilities—like Alexa Voice Services—into practical, ship-ready features for clients and devices.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Peking University
English, Chinese