10 Facts About Jonathan Gay

Jonathan Gay was born on 1967 and is an American computer programmer and software entrepreneur based in Northern California.

Jonathan Gay founded Software as Art, which was later renamed Greenbox, which made energy management solutions for the home.

Jonathan Gay began programming for Silicon Beach in his senior year.

SmartSketch was ported to the Windows and Macintosh operating systems, but with the advent in 1995 of the World Wide Web, Jonathan Gay saw an opportunity to create an editor that could produce animations for web pages.

Jonathan Gay took on the role of Vice President of Engineering at Macromedia and led the newly minted Flash engineering team at Macromedia's headquarters in San Francisco, beginning a decade of leading the Flash agenda at Macromedia.

Jonathan Gay was responsible for the low-level vector graphics rasterization, pen-computing inspired drawing tools, and the Flash Player Netscape browser plug-in.

Jonathan Gay founded a new team alongside the Flash team to fulfill this vision, building a product which he code named "Tin Can," a reference to the tin can telephone made by children using two tin cans and a string.

Jonathan Gay served as the engineering lead and product visionary for the "Breeze Live" web conferencing elements of the product.

Jonathan Gay ultimately decided to pursue other opportunities in lieu of joining the combined company.

When Jonathan Gay left Macromedia in December 2005, he held the title of Chief Technology Officer.