Jayson Minard

Director of Technology @ locals.com

Locals is a creator crowdfunding and social community site founded in 2019.

As technology leader, I set the strategic direction for technical teams, delivering major improvements in scalability, security, observability, and modernized our infrastructure.

Contributions to Solid-JS, Solid-Start, Quarkus, and various Kotlin open-source frameworks.

Director @ sort.dev

Director and Principal Engineer @ sort.dev

Delivering innovative technology solutions for top-tier clients.

Open-source used within our technology stack included:

Solving complex technical challenges for consulting clients. Technology stacks centered around:

• Elasticsearch ﹠ OpenSearch
• Apache Spark ﹠ Flink
• Hadoop ﹠ HDFS
• MySQL ﹠ PostgreSQL
• AWS ﹠ Azure
• Kafka
• Java ﹠ Kotlin ﹠ Scala
• JavaScript ﹠ TypeScript
• Quarkus ﹠ Vert.x

Founder, CTO, and Product @ Collokia

Developed ML-powered tools to analyze IT professionals' collective experience, eliminating repeated mistakes and accelerating learning by surfacing relevant knowledge directly in their work environment.

Led technical and product teams to deliver a successful and comprehensive product. A key partner with the CEO in funding the company through successive rounds.

Also served as product manager, leveraging both roles to build a successful product that met enterprise knowledge management needs while seamlessly integrating into IT professionals' daily workflows.

Contributions to Elasticsearch, Flink, Netflix Graph (fork), and various Kotlin open-source projects.

Open-source used within our technology stack included:

Some of the technologies we use to accomplish this include:

• Elasticsearch
• Apache Spark ﹠ Flink
• NLP ﹠ ML (JVM toolkits)
• Vert.x ﹠ Apache Ignite ﹠ Hazelcast
• MySQL ﹠ Cosmos DB
• AWS EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, Presto, …
• Azure Compute, EventHubs, DataLake, Analytics, …
• Kotlin ﹠ JavaScript ﹠ C#
• Plugins for: Eclipse, Intellij, VisualStudio, Gradle, Maven, SBT, Jenkins, Bamboo
• Chrome and Firefox browser extensions

Director @ Bremeld (Uruguay) ﹠ MindHeap (Canada)

Director and CTO @ Bremeld (Uruguay) ﹠ MindHeap (Canada)

Delivering innovative solutions for clients focused on search and linguistics, big data, data engineering, open-ended scaling, and systems development.

Contributed to Solr, Elasticsearch, Kotlin, and many other open-source projects.

Solving complex technical challenges for consulting clients focused on scalability, search and linguistics, big data, data engineering, and systems engineering. Technology stacks centered around:

• Elasticsearch ﹠ Solr ﹠ Lucene
• Endeca
• Cassandra
• MySQL ﹠ PostgreSQL
• SQL Server ﹠ Oracle
• Titan Graph ﹠ Neo4j
• AWS
• Java ﹠ Kotlin ﹠ Scala
• JavaScript ﹠ Python

CIO and CTO @ Abebooks (amazon.com)

At the time, AbeBooks was the world’s largest marketplace for books with over 125 million books from 14,000 suppliers around the world operating localized sites in North America, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany and Italy.

As CTO, I led technology strategy and executive decision support. Acted as Chief Software Architect redesigning the system for scalability and reliability. Improved technical hiring, and mentoring of development resources.

As CTO, I led technology strategy and executive decision support. As CIO, I directed all technology functions including IT, Operations, Development, Program Management, and QA. Managed the IP portfolio and licensing, vendor relationships, PCI compliance, and technology budgets.

Under my dual role as CTO/CIO, I established the product management organization before transitioning it to dedicated VP of Product Management.

Director, Product Management @ BEA Systems (Oracle)

Short term contract working to drive home the first unified platform release of WebLogic (8.1); working with the teams developing BEA Workshop IDE and associated tooling for platform components.

Chief Architect, Java Business Unit @ Borland

An architect at Borland acts as technical program manager as well as driving the technology base and decisions of products within their domain. In this role, I defined the strategy for products within the Java Business Unit, including for the JBuilder IDE, related frameworks, and influenced the direction of Java itself.

As Chief Architect, I was a member of the executive staff of the Java Business Unit. Led the JBU in strengthening our market position and extending our competitive advantage while leading the technical program management and development teams.

Acted as Director, Technical Business Development during a management team transition. Managed corporate-wide partnerships, IP and patent licensing, acquisition technical due diligence and research. One key acquisition was of TogetherSoft for USD $185 million.

Overall lead for the Java products division of the company. Senior Staff engineer working on the Java based JBuilder IDE and also the company-wide Sanctuary software licensing system. Participated in Java standards development in conjunction with Sun Microsystems.

I was the original creator of the JBuilder IDE during a previous stint at Borland

Founder, CTO, and Product @ OpenAvenue

OpenAvenue pioneered web-based collaboration for hybrid software teams, creating a new model for seamless integration between internal, outsourced, and open-source developers.

As CTO and product lead, shaped product strategy and pioneered a hybrid commercial/open-source business model that encouraged enterprise contribution to open-source development.

Founded and led company through seed and round A funding. Transitioned to product/technical leadership alongside new CEO, partnering with co-founder VP of Engineering to drive product strategy.

OpenAvenue showcased the very first model of a "pull-request" style feature with its "baselines and submissions" model of development.

We were also the stewards of the CVS (version control system) open-source project.

Sr. Staff Engineer, JBuilder Architect @ Borland

Created the JBuilder IDE, taking it from concept to market-leading product. Changed the original team direction from C++ addons towards a Java centric powerhouse.

Created the JBuilder IDE, originally as a side project JAyVA, and later as the core focus of the team. Using a mix of Delphi and Java, created a new model for UI development with direct code interpolation and manipulation without special form files. Advanced from Engineer IV to Sr Staff Engineer leading core IDE development. Also contributed to Borland C++ and Delphi.

Patented the concept for modern integrated development environments setting a direction for the industry, netting over USD $200 million in patent licensing. Influenced the direction of Java working with Sun Microsystems on key Java specifications.

Founder and Lead Engineer @ Dvorak Development

Created ForCIS CompuServe navigator, which became the basis of the NavCIS product at Dvorak Development. We invented the concept of fonts, colors, and emojis in electronic messages.

Created ForCIS CompuServe navigator in FORCE, which became the basis of the NavCIS product for DOS and Windows written in C++ and Assembly.