Jay Floyd
Manager, Data Platforms | Leadership Coach for High-Performing Tech Professionals Who Want Consistent Signal.
- Role
- Life and Career Coach at Mento
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jay Floyd
I build data platforms and I build leaders. Same work, different substrate.By day, I lead Data Platforms (SRE + Data Engineering) at Zapier. I have 15+ years in data modeling, data warehouse architecture, governance, and automation, turning messy systems into signal-rich systems teams can trust.Outside of work, I coach growth-oriented leaders who are already talented, but feel the friction of the next level: influence, presence, clarity under pressure, and leading without losing themselves. My lane is identity-based leadership with a strengths-first approach, anchored in truth, and powered by story.My operating philosophy is simple: all output has inputs and functions. So I help leaders “scan the why,” name what is driving their results, then build routines and environments that make the right outcomes repeatable.Author of Rare On Purpose and other work on leadership, identity, and response-ability. If you are building platforms, leading teams, or trying to lead with conviction in a noisy world, message me here.Keywords: Data Platforms, Data Engineering, SRE, Governance, Automation, AI leverage, Leadership Coaching, Executive Presence, Team Operating Systems
Experience
Life and Career Coach
May 2022 — Present
I coach high-potential professionals in tech to build unshakable confidence—not by ignoring their story, but by owning it.Instead of performing past our pain, we work from it—turning lived experience into leadership advantage. Using strengths-based coaching rooted in the Rare Stack™ framework, I help clients identify what makes them unmistakable and design strategies that fit how they’re actually wired.My coaching isn’t about becoming someone new—it’s about remembering who you’ve been the whole time and building around that truth.Through 1:1 coaching, group cohorts, and community content, I help people move from self-doubt to self-alignment. Together, we don’t just chase success—we define it from the inside out.
Education
Bryant & Stratton College
Information Technology
1997 — 1999
DeVry University
Information Technology
Devry University
Information Systems
1996 — 1997
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