Jay Gengelbach

Software Engineer

Greater Toronto Area, Canada19 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in scaling complex software systems.
  • Proven leadership in backend and infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong advocate for engineering culture and practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with extensive experience in SaaS and Fintech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile MethodologiesSoftware Development

Other Skills

Data GovernanceDistributed Team ManagementSoftware Architectural DesignSoftware InfrastructureCommunicationCross-functional CoordinationEngineeringEngineering ManagementDiversity & InclusionData ManagementLarge Scale Systems

About

I'm a software engineering leader who operates across the full stack of both technical and people leadership: - Writing code - Planning and project management - Incident command - Design and architecture - Technical strategy - Mentorship - Org design and staffing strategy - Engineering culture and practices - Executive alignment and advocacy My expertise is in backend and infrastructural software, including web-scale data storage and analysis, resource efficiency, productionization and reliability, and distributed system architecture. In my time at Google and Vercel, I've worked on some of the largest and most complex software systems on the planet. I like to say that I'd rather scale a system from 1 to 10 than build from 0 to 1. I like transforming functional-but-rickety systems for unprecedented scale.

Experience

Vercel

Software Engineer

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

  • Builds team: making the fastest and safest way to deploy your site

Geico

Distinguished Engineer

Oct 2024Jan 2025 · 3 mos · Remote

Verily

3 roles

Principal Engineer

Feb 2024Aug 2024 · 6 mos

Agile MethodologiesData Governance

Engineering Director - Data, Translation, and Analytics Platforms

Sep 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

Software DevelopmentDistributed Team Management

Data Platforms Lead

Mar 2018Oct 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Software DevelopmentAgile Methodologies

Google

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2014Jan 2018 · 4 yrs · Boulder, Colorado, United States

  • I led the backend serving infrastructure team behind Google Now / Proactive Search. I built the team from 3 up to 20 people and managed resources and efficiency for a serving system that received billions of queries per day.
Software DevelopmentSoftware Architectural Design

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2010Jan 2014 · 4 yrs · Boulder, Colorado, United States

  • I led one of the backend teams behind Google Payments. I owned the storage system that held account data for Adwords and Google Play customers, and took the system safely through a large-scale zero-downtime storage system migration.
Software DevelopmentSoftware Architectural Design

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2006Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · Boulder, Colorado, United States

  • I worked on Google's cluster monitoring infrastructure, providing clear-box monitoring tools to help Site Reliability Engineering build some of the most highly-available consumer services on the planet.
Software DevelopmentSoftware Infrastructure

Education

Purdue University

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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