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Jay Hammonds, an award-winning technologist, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently works on the Corporate Engineering Team at Robinhood. Formally holding a role at Facebook for 10 years. His primary objective was to ensure the executives are efficient and effective from a technical standpoint. Prior, he led IT for Instagram team for 4 years.

 In 2012, Jay helped create the Year Up @ Facebook program which has helped bring in 700+ diverse interns. In the community, Jay serves as an advisor, board member and mentor and consultant for a multitude of Bay Area and national community organizations. His focus is on bridging the gap between tech and underrepresented youth while helping building tech curriculums for inner-city students landed him on 60 Minutes and the 2018 Class for Forbes 30 Under 30 in the field of Enterprise: Technology.