# Jay Quigley

> Senior Software Engineer at Omada Health

Location: El Cerrito, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jayquigley

Tenacious, driven, detail-oriented technologist and research generalist with an extensive background in both academia and tech. Methodical, analytical thinker and seasoned communicator skilled at questioning assumptions. Resourceful, rapid learner with extensive experience teaching, writing, volunteering, and coding software. Affable teammate dedicated to uplifting others and interpreting feedback charitably.

My professional programming experience is in Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and SQL. I enjoy learning new packages and paradigms.

I am passionate about many social, political, and ethical issues, ranging from typical concerns (climate change, equality of opportunity, etc.) to the less typical (factory farming, global poverty, catastrophic risk).

Github: https://github.com/jayqui

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer Team Lead @ Omada Health
Jan 2024 – Present
Served as coordinator-across-teams for Omada's main monolith app, as well Lead for a team focused on stability/site reliability.

### Senior Software Engineer, Musculoskeletal @ Omada Health
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Omada Health
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led a cross-team, glossary-style documentation initiative
- As part of a cross-departmental initiative, added ample documentation and a reinvented testing suite to a Ruby gem housing criteria for acceptance to Omada's programs. Saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees
- Core maintainer of the codebases and npm packages housing Omada's custom SCSS- and React- based design system

### Software Engineer @ Omada Health
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Feature-led overhaul to care platform timeline. Established architecture, denormalized database, and backfilled over 5 million database records, bug-free.
- Built system for ingesting & displaying biometric data in timeline with Recharts charting library
- Feature-led major initiative to incorporate legacy signup features into present signup flow. Ample experience with Redux, accessibility, integration testing with Capybara. >11% enrollment boost

### Software Engineer @ CoverHound
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Ruby/Rails and React/Redux, with frequent use of raw SQL. Major project themes & skills acquired:

Integrations
* Lead developer on a REST API between CoverHound's Agency Portal application and the main applicaiton for CyberPolicy (a CoverHound brand).
* Automated Slack messages triggered by our application (e.g. sales notifications, progress updates)
* Capturing data from CoverHound’s commercial insurance app in an insurance agent portal application
* Integrating our data with an email marketing platform (ActiveCampaign) via a marketing management system (Segment)
* OAuth ("Log in with Google")
* Attachment uploads to AWS

Code organization and best practices
* Frontend/backend REST API via JSON API protocol (Rails’s ActiveModel Serializers -> redux_json_api)
* Lean code organization, for example with the Interactor gem/pattern
* Extremely test-driven development
* Database management & querying via Rails and raw SQL

Practice learning & working with useful packages/features
* Sidekiq; Pusher; Elasticsearch
* WickedPDF HTML-to-PDF converter
* Rails mailers

### Software Engineer @ Avant
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Chicago, Illinois
I worked with the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) team. I skilled up significantly in my knowledge of Rails as well as JavaScript (esp. ReactJS). Example projects:
-  Self-taught ReactJS & EcmaScript 2015 to build a Monthly Net Income Calculator, saving Avant an estimated $60,000 annually in call center specialist productivity
-  Pioneered a Ruby class architecture for call center specialist task reminders, enhancing productivity with scalable code
-  Consistently practiced test-driven development (esp. in Rspec, Mocha), and honed problem solving strategies (e.g. searching through app of over 60,000 files)
-  Implemented several new call center workflows in a Ruby-based DSL, routinely writing and conferring on new Rails scopes and migrations

### Teaching Assistant @ BLUE1647
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Chicago, Illinois
Mentored intro-level students in course on front-end mobile development.  Technologies covered: Git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, and the Ionic framework.

### Graduate Instructor & Teaching Assistant @ FSU Department of Philosophy
Jan 2007 – Jan 2015 | Tallahassee, Florida
I was an instructor for three college courses (Ethical Issues x2, Intro to Political Philosophy x1). Habits I developed:
- engaging audiences as a speaker
- stimulate critical thinking through assignments
- soliciting and incorporating feedback
- handling difficult situations professionally (e.g., plagiarism)

I was a teaching assistant for an additional fifteen college courses.  Habits I developed:
- providing feedback that is actionable, specific, and framed as encouraging even when negative
- motivating discouraged people to persevere
- executing orders assertively yet obediently

### General Intern @ Animal Charity Evaluators
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
A unpaid, voluntary summer internship, taken on for its high potential impact.
- Drafted the organization's first development and fundraising plan
- Networked with numerous nonprofit directors about their fundraising experiences and reading suggestions
- Assembled seventeen letters of intent for grant applications and one full grant application
- Piloted a study on the effectiveness of video outreach promoting vegan food choices
- Institutionalized ACE's intern structure by co-writing an Intern Handbook


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Philosophy
Florida State University
Jan 2007 – Jan 2014

### Web Development
Dev Bootcamp
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Master of Arts (M.A.) in Philosophy
Florida State University
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy & Religion
Truman State University
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007

### Ames High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jamesgquigley
- GitHub: https://github.com/jayqui

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Last updated: 2026-03-22