Jason Bao
Founder at Major
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Bao is a founder and software engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling product-led startups from San Francisco. Trained in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at UC Berkeley, he has led backend engineering and cloud cost optimization efforts at Verkada, where he was the top backend contributor and helped bring Verkada Guest from concept to production. He later scaled Glencoco as Founder & CTO to seven-figure annual revenue, owning product and engineering end-to-end. His background spans machine learning research, investment engineering, and product development at early-stage companies, giving him a rare mix of quantitative rigor and pragmatic execution. Now leading Major, he focuses on turning technical foundations into repeatable businesses, combining hands-on coding with strategic product leadership. An appetite for crossing discipline boundaries—CS, applied math, and philosophy—informs his pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to product design.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (36)
portal9
orm-library8
terraform-module8
python8
orm8
go8
aws8
golang8
chatgpt7
artwork7
aws-vpc7
typescript7
ai7
mobile-application7
openai6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
calblueprint/veterans360-web
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Admin web portal for Veterans 360 admins
Contributions:166 commits, 66 PRs, 129 pushes in 6 months
web-portaladminportaladmin-webveterans
JasonBaoZ/jasonbaoz.github.io
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 38 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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