Jason Blais
VP Product And Program Management, NATO Global at Mattermost
Finland
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Top SchoolJason Blais is a product and program management executive with a decade of experience scaling enterprise-grade SaaS and private cloud solutions, now leading Product and Program Management for NATO/Global at Mattermost. He blends rigorous data-driven decision making from a biostatistics and applied math background with hands-on product growth experience—launching a freemium SaaS that reached 40,000+ MAU and seven-figure ARR in six months. Jason has built cross-functional teams and developer ecosystems (1000+ extensions, 100+ open-source contributors) and drives AI-first transformation to speed delivery and precision across product and operations. His career spans deep involvement in product, deployment engineering, and customer operations, plus tactical contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Mattermost and omnibus-gitlab. He routinely partners with C-suite and Boards to set strategy while still rolling up his sleeves on UI, docs, and DevOps improvements—an unusual blend of executive leadership and meticulous hands-on craftsmanship. Based in Finland, he also contributes to allied cyber readiness and defense-industry collaboration through AFCEA and CCDCOE engagements.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Biostatistics, Master's degree Biostatistics at University of Waterloo
English, Finnish
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Github Skills (44)
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/docs
May 2016 - Sep 2022
Mattermost documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:250 reviews, 2494 commits, 1207 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the documentation for Mattermost's features. They added a troubleshooting guide for YouTube videos, updated existing documentation for features, improved and renamed documentation, created a documentation overview page, documented the new features released, and enhanced various help pages for new releases of the desktop app. The user was also involved in fixing typos, ensuring clear language, and improving overall content organization throughout the documentation.
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mattermost/desktop
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
Mattermost Desktop application for Windows, Mac and Linux
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 133 commits, 82 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on enhancing the Mattermost desktop application's user interface and settings. They updated the menu bar, modified window dimensions, and refined help text within the settings. These changes included updating settings for the dock icon, spellchecking and GPU acceleration. Additionally, they made changes to the code in several settings files.
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