Jason Zissman
Senior Software Engineer at Qualia
Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJason Zissman is a Senior Software Engineer and technical people leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, event-driven platforms and high-performance web applications. He has led teams and delivery at scale—driving Azure migrations, microservices and CI/CD adoption, and performance improvements that reduced load times for applications with millions of daily users. Jason’s background spans infrastructure-focused projects (Neo4j, Elasticsearch, event streaming) and front-end work, including contributions to the TimeMe.js library where he improved UX and core timing logic. Known for improving deployment reliability and developer practices, he blends pragmatic engineering with mentorship to raise team output and career growth. Based in Illinois, he holds a dual degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from UIC and brings a rare mix of systems-level design and front-end attention to detail.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
web-development10
jquery9
printing9
html9
css7
zebra-printer6
ios6
php6
jmeter6
cookie6
android6
zpl6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jasonzissman/TimeMe.js
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
A JavaScript library to accurately time how long a user views a web page, disregarding idle time and time when the tab or window is minimized.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 112 commits, 48 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development of the front-end for the TimeMe.js library. They implemented and refined the demo page, added functionality to track element interaction, and improved the user interface. The user also made adjustments to the core library functionality, fixing a bug, and refactored the code for improved organization.
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jasonzissman/jasonzissman.github.io
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
A blog about software engineering and solving business problems.
Contributions:2 PRs, 53 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
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