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Jay Barad, founder of Coding With Jay
ABOUT JAY

Building Software. Sharing What Actually Works.

I’m Jay Barad, a Full Stack Developer with 14+ years of hands-on experience building web applications, backend systems, APIs, and WordPress solutions.

Coding With Jay is where I share practical lessons from real development work — architecture decisions, debugging techniques, performance improvements, tools I’ve tested, and mistakes I’ve learned from.

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Not just theory. Practical lessons that matter.

Architecture & Backend

Scalable APIs, authentication systems, databases and backend architectures that hold up in production.

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Real approaches to diagnosing performance issues, optimizing applications and solving complex production problems.

AI-Assisted Development

How I use Claude Code, MCP and AI tools in real workflows — what works, what doesn’t, and where they save time.