About

Jaysen Spurlock is a highly skilled software engineer with over 8 years of experience in the field. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Jaysen's areas of expertise include iOS and server development, with a focus on end-to-end mobile app development. Currently, Jaysen works as a Software Engineer at YouTube, where he has led the development of features for Shorts, Stories, Posts, and Video Creation in YouTube's native iOS app. He collaborates closely with Android developers on technical designs, presents those designs at review forums, and completes iOS and server implementations. Jaysen has also implemented metrics gathering for feature usage and worked closely with the data science team to design tables for OKR analysis. During the company-wide migration to new server infrastructure, Jaysen scoped, designed, and presented for review the migration of his team's services. He led the implementation, delegated concurrent tasks, monitored traffic, and coordinated traffic migration to the new server. Jaysen also serves in his team's on-call rotation and has been trained in first-responder-style outage management. Jaysen has mentored new hires to bring them up to speed on the nuances of internal tooling quickly and organized a recurring team mixer. When the pandemic began, he made the event virtual to keep people connected. He has also conducted technical interviews. Before joining YouTube, Jaysen worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Innovative Systems, where he maintained and added features to Visual Voicemail and TV Guide applications. Jaysen's technical skills include software engineering, iOS, CI/CD, Android, data science, integration, mobile, UI, and infra. He is passionate about helping others and maintaining product excellence. With his extensive experience and technical skills, Jaysen is a valuable asset to any organization.