Jay Honnold

I'm a senior software engineer specializing in system design and full-stack development with extensive experience at AWS and Amazon. I've led initiatives that transformed manual processes into automated solutions, saving years of effort. Throughout my career, I've architected scalable systems that bridge complex business requirements with robust technical implementation - my work focuses on building maintainable, secure solutions that empower engineering teams to deliver value efficiently.

My professional expertise centers on building and modernizing full-stack systems at scale - leading migrations to microservices architectures, developing automation tools for CI/CD pipelines, and engineering backends using Spring and Express with SQL and NoSQL databases. Beyond my professional work, I'm driven by a genuine love for coding and problem-solving, which I pursue through independent projects. This passion is best reflected in Berserk, an open-source chess engine I've built in C that ranks among the world's strongest. Developing Berserk isn't about professional advancement - it's about the joy of creating something complex and elegant, the satisfaction of optimization, and the intellectual challenge of teaching machines to think. Whether at work or at home, I'm motivated by elegant solutions.