Jason Watson
Sr. Software Engineer at JITX
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Watson is a senior software engineer with 30 years of hands-on experience spanning software development, DevOps, and IT infrastructure, anchored by a deep understanding of how requirements, budgets, UX, networks, and even silicon interact. He excels at root-cause analysis and cross-architectural integration, selecting the right tools for each task to deliver reliable systems at scale. Currently a Sr. Software Engineer at JITX in Boston, he has led/build CI/CD and automation initiatives across embedded platforms, migrating build systems to CMake and standing up Concourse-based pipelines for ARM and RISC-V ecosystems, plus provisioning customers with on-demand SDKs via Terraform/AWS. In prior leadership roles, he directed teams of 50+ in IT service management, automation, monitoring, analytics, and ML, and delivered enterprise-grade metrics platforms (Golang, Prometheus, Grafana) and a time-series metrics stack, cutting deployment times from days to minutes. He has hands-on experience across data centers, cloud, and embedded Linux (Yocto) and has managed multi-million-dollar tool budgets, giving him a rare blend of technical depth and pragmatic program leadership. Based in Boston, he brings a rare combination of craft, leadership, and a track record of turning complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Southern Polytechnic State University
Github Skills (83)
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elm10
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continuous-integration10
conan10
gocd10
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terraform-provider10
concourse10
aws10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jwatson0/vault
Aug 2018 - Feb 2024
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 6 months
golangaccess-managementsecurityas-a-servicesecrets
StanzaOrg/stanzasite
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 87 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 8 months
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