Jason Chase
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Chase is a software engineer based in Cambridge, MA with 11 years of experience, currently at Google DeepMind working on measuring and improving Gemini. At Google he built NLP systems across the full ML stack to support dozens of Alphabet products, including data collection, training, fine-/prompt-tuning and model distillation. His background spans production ML and systems work—from scaling ML-driven OCR and patient messaging at athenahealth (growing throughput from ~200k to ~1.5M messages/day) to mobile and front-end engineering. He’s an active open-source contributor to Chromium projects, having added concurrency-safe chrome.storage behavior, implemented iOS chrome.system APIs, added service-worker offline support, and refactored build tooling—demonstrating a blend of low-level engineering, UX sensibility, and ML expertise.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Yale UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese, French, Japanese
Github Skills (19)
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javascript10
gulp10
android-development10
java10
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javas10
javascripts10
concurrency10
testing9
dashboard9
ios9
objective-c9
css9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps
Aug 2014 - Apr 2015
Chrome apps on Android and iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:102 commits, 17 pushes, 29 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to the Chrome Apps on Android project by implementing and fixing issues related to the `chrome.storage` API. They added locking mechanisms to prevent concurrent write operations, ensuring data consistency during set, remove, and clear actions. Furthermore, they added tests for concurrency scenarios related to `set` calls and addressed a compile error. The user also implemented various iOS-specific features for the chrome.system.cpu, .display, .memory, and .network APIs.
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GoogleChrome/chromium-dashboard
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Chrome Status Dashboard
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 17 commits, 4 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Chrome Status Dashboard. They implemented features such as URL linkification in comments, integrated Opera and Android Webview information in status sections, and added service worker functionality for offline access. Furthermore, the user refactored build processes by switching from Grunt to Gulp, and made improvements to the display and functionality of various pages and elements.
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