Jay Smith Email Address

Director of Platform Engineering

Carfax was added to CrunchBase in 2012

Over 15 years of experience in agile software development, as both a dedicated software engineer and successful leader, with the proven ability to unite, empower and transform groups of individuals into cohesive and collaborative teams that deliver product features efficiently with a high standard of quality. My technical experience as a software engineer coupled with the leadership experience as a manager and director help me understand, lead, relate to, communicate with, and inspire cross-functional teams. ➢ Willingness to take risks, implement changes, and try new things to fail fast and get to the best solution with a highly pragmatic and methodical approach. ➢ Effective at hiring, managing, and engaging large groups of developers, both domestic and international, into a productive and efficient team. From an individual growth perspective, building trust, communicating expectations, setting goals, fostering training and growth mindsets, professional development, and overall performance evaluation. ➢ Enable delivery of the customer experience by helping create actionable product roadmaps, managing product lifecycles, providing business guidance and long-term product vision while empowering engineers through collaboration, effective time-management, and coaching. ➢ Ability to help define customer needs, understand business requirements, and deliver on tactical features while keeping an eye on the strategic vision. I take ownership and lead complex projects to completion that have impacts across all lines of business and products. ➢ Support overall corporate and IT strategy by developing short and long-term strategic plans, as well as providing product strategy and vision; including metrics and reporting to define and monitor success. ➢ Own the design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and delivery of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed applications, systems, platforms, services in both an on-prem and cloud environment. ➢ Extensive experience helping teams implement and scale the Agile software engineering methodology to ensure great communication and collaborating among cross-functional teams in order to ensure product delivery of the most important features while still being flexible to change.