Jay Friendly is a bilingual (English/Japanese) Drupal developer, who has been working with Drupal since 2007 in Drupal 5. He maintains a number of contributed modules on Drupal.org, including the Drupal 8 Private Message module, a scalable private messaging system built to be extensible using Drupal APIs. Jay likes to give back to the community by providing support on the Drupal.org forums and Drupal Answers, and by maintaining some helpful modules on Drupal.org.