For the past twenty-five years, Jay has built software development experience as a hands-on CTO, Architect, Senior Developer, Mentor, and Trainer.

For the past eight years, He has been concentrating on Salesforce, Mulesoft and Marketing Cloud. and continue to work as a C# developer since 2000. Before that, he was a Java programmer, starting with Java at Sun when Java was still an internal product at Sun Microsystem.

Jay is one of the lead developers of ApexSharp (www.ApexSharp.com), an open-source C# to Salesforce APEX and back to C# Transpiler and a Salesforce .NET SDK developed in C#.

Jay was selected by Salesforce as a Salesforce Trailblazer. There are only 200 Salesforce Trailblazers out of six million developers and admins (https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/trailblazers/jay-janarthanan), He is also part of the core group of twenty external advisors to Salesforce on their Language and Tooling strategy. Given advance access to Salesforce product road map for feedback.

Jay has excellent consultancy and customer-facing skills, he can communicate well with C level executives to die-hard tech geeks at their level from pre-sales to project completion.

Jay loves to learn and spend about 20 - 25 hours a week learning new technologies. As a Candian and US passport holder, he can legally work in Canada and the US.

Jay attended St.Johns college in Jaffna (90 Batch), he left Jaffna to Canada, continued his studies at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario concentrating on Computer science and commerce. After living in many parts of the world, Jay now calls Detroit, Michigan home.