About

Jay Tailor is an experienced software engineering leader with over 15 years of experience in the industry. He has a passion for helping consumers through innovation, new age system design, and architecture. Jay has extensive experience in building complicated products based on scalable services with a huge amount of data handling. He is skilled in building teams and inspiring them to solve complex problems, delivering products with predictable velocity and measurable quality, and advocating customer value. Currently, Jay is working as an Engineering Manager at Unity Technologies, San Francisco, where he has built and grown a team of 12+ engineers to build one of the most complicated monetization platforms for Unity from scratch. He has hired and retained top engineers and drove larger technical designs, which involved programming, code reviews, tech designs to efficient delivery. Jay has 4+ years of experience as an engineering leader with a total of ~15 years of experience in various capacities in the software field. Jay has worked with product, design, and leadership teams to align with organizational goals and turn them into day-to-day execution with efficiency. He has effectively managed and delivered complicated projects that touch different teams through various project management traits. Jay has driven the product requirement through his research, innovation, and customer pain. He has worked as a dev to build large-scale micro-services in golang and designed end-to-end architecture. Jay is experienced in working with building scalable micro-services, handling large-scale data, and reporting solutions. He has worked and managed platforms like AWS, GCP to deploy and run the product using kubernetes/docker. Jay is experienced in building CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Github, Gitlab, etc. He has designed and developed automation frameworks using Python, Golang, Java, TestNG, Ruby, and C#. Jay has worked on backend dev and test infrastructure, which involves virtualization, system testing, performance testing, code coverage, etc. Jay has also worked on designing a complex system to build a multi-tier consumer product and building events and analytics platforms. He understands the mobile app development ecosystem and the challenges. Jay has worked on Unix platforms with various build and support systems like gradle, maven, git, svn, Jenkins, etc. Currently, as a Software Engineering Manager at Unity Technologies, Jay manages a team of super-skilled engineers with various skill sets (golang, kafka, gcp, data pipelines, etl, react, redux, etc.) and helps them grow in Unity. He is involved in