Jason Shao
Chief Operating Officer
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Shao is a seasoned technology and operations leader with 12+ years building high-performance engineering, product, and ad-ops organizations across programmatic advertising, location analytics, and civic-scale connectivity. As COO of Place Exchange (after serving as CTO and Head of Technology) he scaled real-time bidding and programmatic OOH capabilities, unifying workflows and device-level attribution to bring web-style buying to physical-world media. He’s repeatedly turned fragmented teams and brittle systems into autonomous, metrics-driven organizations through Agile, DevOps, and “X-as-code” practices while shipping large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems. Jason combines hands-on technical depth in big-data architectures and RTB platforms with a knack for launching new products and fixing broken processes, and he continues to consult startups through Contingency2. Based in Pasadena, he brings a pragmatic focus on measurable outcomes—reduced cycle times, massive throughput gains, and clearer operational SLAs—that power business growth.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Trailhead by SalesforceB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Chinese, English, French
Stackoverflow
2,167reputation
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59answers
6questions
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Github Skills (54)
taxonomy10
object-model10
dooh10
andriod10
openrtb10
advertising10
java9
storekit9
homebrew9
ant9
raml8
cubing7
aws-lambda7
azure-functions7
aws7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jayshao/Personal
Apr 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 4 years 7 months
openooh/venue-taxonomy
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
The intention of this project is to standardize the list of venue types that represent Digital-Out-of-Home (DOOH) advertising screens within a programmatic OpenRTB 2.5 context. The systematization of DOOH venue types will allow for clearer targeting by media buying platforms across a spectrum of available supply-side platforms offering DOOH inventory.
Contributions:23 reviews, 98 commits, 33 PRs in 2 years 5 months
openrtboohdoohvenuetaxonomy
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