Jason Cohen
Founder, Chief Innovation Officer
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJason Cohen is a seasoned software entrepreneur and investor who has built four technology startups, with two exits, and currently serves as founder and Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine. WP Engine is a leading managed WordPress platform with 170,000 customers and 1,200 global employees, handling billions of requests daily and delivering high customer satisfaction (NPS 74). Earlier ventures include Smart Bear, the creator of Code Collaborator and author of a book on lightweight peer code review, which was acquired by AutomatedQA in 2007. He also co-founded ITWatchDogs, developing firmware for ARM7-based server-room monitors, which was sold to Geist Manufacturing. An angel investor since 2009 and a founding member of Capital Factory, Jason mentors early-stage startups in Austin and shares startup wisdom through his AsmartBear writing. Based in Austin, Texas, he blends hands-on engineering excellence with strategic leadership to build scalable, customer-focused software platforms.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Stackoverflow
82,123reputation
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249answers
17questions
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Github Skills (79)
null10
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command-line10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
asmartbear/heroku-wp-template
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:70 pushes in 11 days
asmartbear/headless-strategy
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:26 pushes in 9 months
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