David Jay
Executive Director, Founder at GreenStand
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Jay is a mission-driven founder and executive with nine years leading GreenStand to scale a tech-enabled, pay-to-grow reforestation model that addresses climate change and extreme poverty across 86 countries. With a 15-year background in public health and rural development across the Global South, he combines operational rigor—having managed multi-million-dollar payrolls and hundreds of millions in assets—with grassroots impact work like biofuel networks and vocational education. An eternal optimist and hands-on leader, he blends aviation and aeronautical proficiency with community forestry expertise to design auditable environmental-impact systems, earning recognition as one of "America's Greatest Disruptors." Known for strengths in learning, activation, and individualized leadership, he excels at translating complex humanitarian needs into scalable, tech-driven solutions.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Management, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Management at Granite State CollegeAssociates of Applied Science, Aviation, Associates of Applied Science, Aviation at Leigh Carbon Community College
English, Swahili, maa, Italian
Github Skills (28)
webmap10
leafletjs10
climate-change10
gis10
android-app10
android10
javascript9
frontend9
microservices8
documentation8
philosophy6
mobile-application6
wallet6
material-ui6
react5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Davidezrajay/greenstand-documentation
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 8 months
Davidezrajay/Treetracker_android
Jan 2019 - Jan 2026
This is the Android app for the TreeTracker open source project (www.treetracker.org). This project coordinates tree planting employment for people living in extreme poverty. The Android segment allows people to track and verify reforestation plantings, paying planters on a per planting basis.
Contributions:19 PRs, 7 pushes, 16 branches in 7 years 1 month
androidandroid-app
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