Summary
Jason Donahue is a Senior Solutions Engineer with 11 years of software-focused experience built on a two-decade foundation in UNIX systems and operations. He designs and deploys highly available microservices and cloud-native security solutions, bringing production-hardened expertise from roles at BuzzFeed, Palo Alto Networks, Sysdig, and now StrongDM. Jason blends hands-on systems administration with enterprise security engineering, often translating ops-level constraints into resilient platform features. Based in Milltown, NJ, he’s comfortable across the stack—from kernel-adjacent UNIX tooling to cloud orchestration—and is known for pragmatic automation that reduces toil. An early career focus on large-scale kiosk and hosting systems gives him a practical, operations-first lens that informs his approach to reliability and observability.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
perl, python, go