Jason Garber
Summary
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RockstarJason Garber is a seasoned software engineering technical leader with 25 years in development and 16 years of formal experience building resilient backend systems in Ruby and Python. He combines hands-on coding, test-driven design, and pragmatic architecture to tame legacy monoliths, modernize pipelines, and deliver long-lived, well-factored systems that encode institutional knowledge. As a former COO who scaled a consultancy to $8.5M ARR and now a leader at Cisco Meraki, he blends operational rigor with technical mentorship to reduce tech debt, improve developer experience, and align cross-functional teams. Notable impact includes diagnosing a data-structure defect that preserved $3M in ARR and engineering pipeline improvements that cut costs and failure rates dramatically. Colleagues describe him as warm, direct, and generous with time—an advocate for pair programming, thoughtful diagrams, and sustainable engineering practices. Outside work he tinkers with home automation and IoT, bringing the same curiosity and optimization mindset to personal projects as to large-scale systems.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
google-cloud-platform10
mvc10
ssh-keys10
ruby10
security10
svg-sprite10
svg10
refresh10
activerecord10
audio-player10
backbone10
ruby-on-rails10
ssh10
javascript10
jquery10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
michaelBenin/compass-mixins
May 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:26 commits in 1 year 1 month
jgarber623/indieweb-wiki-leaderboard
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Ranking active users on the IndieWeb wiki.
Contributions:41 commits, 17 PRs, 58 pushes in 4 months
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