Jason Younker
Software Engineer at BERA
Petoskey, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Younker is a seasoned software engineer with 12+ years of experience delivering scalable full-stack and system architecture solutions. He combines hands-on development across Go, Ruby, Elixir, and Rust with deep expertise in ClickHouse, MySQL, Redis, and modern frameworks like Rails, ReactJS, and Phoenix to build robust APIs for SaaS platforms. He has led critical architecture and migration initiatives—authoring a 7-step roadmap to modernize ETL pipelines, consolidating 16 Rails apps into a single deployable, and driving a 14% reduction in legacy systems with a 300% year-over-year increase in feature delivery. His background spans Amazon and Moz, where he shaped personalization engines, data platforms, and large-scale migrations, and he currently contributes as a Software Engineer at BERA. Based in Petoskey, Michigan, he also brings an unusual perspective with an MA in Clinical Psychology, enriching his approach to user-centric design and cross-functional leadership.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), Clinical Psychology, Master of Arts (MA), Clinical Psychology at George Fox UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology and Religion, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology and Religion at Lee University
Github Skills (37)
browsable8
endpoint7
golang6
api6
robots-txt5
validation5
stub5
schema-validation5
middleware5
programming-language4
txt4
swagger4
go4
delve4
openapi4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
younker/ynkr
May 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:34 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 10 months
seomoz/irobot
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 11 months
txtpythoninspectionrobots-txtrobots
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