Jason Anderson
Sr Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Anderson is a Sr Principal Engineer based in Seattle with 15+ years in software engineering and over a decade of technical leadership, skilled across frontend, platform engineering, observability, and SRE. He has driven large-scale observability migrations and built automation and instrumentation platforms—most recently guiding observability strategy and integrating generative AI for developer triage at autonomous vehicle and security-focused companies. A full-stack generalist, Jason’s roots in frontend tooling show through open-source contributions to popular Webpack loaders (style-loader, handlebars-loader) where he improved HMR, singleton style handling, and template module loading. His background spans academia-grade cloud testbeds to high-reliability production systems, including designing federated identity and 1PB Ceph deployments for research clouds. Known for bringing clarity to complex technical challenges, he pairs hands-on implementation with team development to deliver pragmatic, auditable solutions. He often operates at the intersection of tooling, deployment configuration, and developer experience—helping teams adopt inner-source and scalable observability practices.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
English, German
Stackoverflow
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22kreached
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
docker10
handlebars10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
css10
configuration-management10
template-engine10
dockers10
webpack10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
webpacker10
ansible10
elasticsearch10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pcardune/handlebars-loader
Aug 2014 - Aug 2015
A handlebars template loader for webpack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `handlebars-loader` for Webpack. They implemented features that allowed for inline requires within Handlebars templates, enabling the dynamic loading of modules within helper and partial parameters. They also added support for specifying the Handlebars runtime location and handling both CommonJS and ES6 module styles for the runtime. Additionally, the user introduced tests to validate the correct functionality of the implemented features.
handlebarswebpack
openstack/kolla-ansible
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Ansible deployment of the Kolla containers. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jason's contributions primarily focused on improving the deployment and configuration aspects of the Kolla-Ansible project. This includes modifying the configuration of Elasticsearch and HAProxy for improved compatibility and functionality. The user also addressed a bug related to HAProxy split configurations and updated documentation concerning external Ceph requirements. These changes demonstrate a focus on ensuring the smooth operation and proper configuration of the deployment environment.
ansible
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