Jason Washburn
Senior Software Engineer at Defense Unicorns
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolJason Washburn is a Platform Engineer with a rare blend of 20+ years of defense leadership and eight years of software/DevOps experience focused on cloud-native backend systems and GovCloud architectures. He has led teams through large-scale re-architectures and data-intensive pipelines—ingesting and serving over 15TB/day of weather data—while remaining hands-on with Python, Kubernetes, Airflow, and AWS. A former senior enlisted leader in the USAF, Jason brings disciplined mission-focused planning, security acumen, and proven program delivery for high-stakes ISR and nuclear enterprise systems. He excels at translating complex operational requirements into secure, scalable platform designs and has shepherded multiple applications through government security approval processes. Based in Bellevue, Nebraska, he combines a 30-year passion for programming and open source with practical experience containerizing commercial software and building CI/CD and governance tooling for regulated environments.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Information Technology, Bachelors, Information Technology at American Military UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAssociate's degree, Avionics Maintenance Technology/Technician, Associate's degree, Avionics Maintenance Technology/Technician at Community College of the Air Force
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Github Skills (111)
python10
sbom10
cosign10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
docker-registry10
orchestration10
k8s10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
helm10
elt10
data-integration10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jasonwashburn/dotfiles
Jun 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
jasonwashburn/tf-ci-sandbox
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Sandbox repo for playing around with terraform/ci related things
Contributions:3 releases, 45 PRs, 78 pushes in 6 months
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