About

Jay Quigley is a highly motivated and detail-oriented Senior Software Engineer at Omada Health with a strong background in both academia and tech. He is a resourceful and rapid learner with extensive experience in teaching, writing, volunteering, and coding software. Jay is a tenacious and driven technologist who questions assumptions and thinks analytically. He is a seasoned communicator and an affable teammate who is dedicated to uplifting others and interpreting feedback charitably. Jay's professional programming experience includes Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and SQL. He enjoys learning new packages and paradigms. He is passionate about many social, political, and ethical issues, ranging from typical concerns such as climate change and equality of opportunity to the less typical, such as factory farming, global poverty, and catastrophic risk. In his current role as Senior Software Engineer at Omada Health, Jay is responsible for the development of the Musculoskeletal program. He has led a cross-team, glossary-style documentation initiative and added ample documentation and a reinvented testing suite to a Ruby gem housing criteria for acceptance to Omada's programs, saving the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees. Jay is also a core maintainer of the codebases and npm packages housing Omada's custom SCSS- and React-based design system. Jay's past experience includes working as a Software Engineer at Omada Health, where he led a feature-led overhaul to care platform timeline, established architecture, denormalized database, and backfilled over 5 million database records, bug-free. He also built a system for ingesting and displaying biometric data in the timeline with Recharts charting library and led a major initiative to incorporate legacy signup features into the present signup flow, resulting in an enrollment boost of over 11%. Jay holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Philosophy from Florida State University, a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Philosophy from Florida State University, and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy and Religion from Truman State University. He also completed a Web Development course at Dev Bootcamp. Jay's technical skills include Software Engineering, SQL, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, Research Scientist, test, Python, Redux, and Integration. With 7.03 years of relevant experience, Jay is an excellent addition to any team looking for a highly skilled and passionate Senior Software Engineer.