Jay聽Severson
Founder at Landover
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJay Severson is a founder and technology leader with nearly three decades of experience building scalable web and gaming platforms. He co-founded Chess.com and Exercise.com, serving as CTO/acting CTO and leading a distributed engineering team through rapid growth and architectural evolution. Early in his career he started an internet gaming company in 1997, was acquired by igl.net, and competed as a professional gamer in Seoul with a Logitech endorsement, blending entertainment with engineering. In recent years he launched VexHex Games (2024鈥損resent) and Landover (2022鈥損resent) to bring modern, mobile-friendly social gaming to new audiences. He holds a Computer Science degree from San Jose State University and thrives on collaborating with talented people to tackle ambitious opportunities from his base in San Jose, California.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BYUComputer Science, Math Minor, Computer Science, Math Minor at San Jos茅 State University
Github Skills (28)
elasticsearch-php10
fosuserbundle10
pear10
filter10
htmlpurifier10
elastica10
bundle9
symfony9
php9
twig9
mongodb9
odm9
elasticsearch8
html8
symfony-bundle8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nuttyputty/landover-localization
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:63 pushes in 5 months
ChessCom/Chess-Game
Feb 2012 - Jan 2016
Based on Pear Games_Chess - represents a chess game as a php object
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 11 months
pearphpgames
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