Jason Blanchard
Director Of Engineering at The Health Management Academy
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Blanchard is a Director of Engineering and hands-on builder with 13 years of experience leading teams through startup growth, acquisition, and corporate carve-outs while delivering scalable SaaS products. He combines full-stack development fluency (React, Node, TypeScript, PostgreSQL) with platform and SRE expertise (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, CI/CD) to connect product, engineering, and operational concerns into reliable delivery pipelines. Known for driving large operational improvements—such as centralizing on Kubernetes, migrating DB clusters, and cutting AWS spend by ~30%—he balances strategic leadership with active coding and mentorship. Jason has led remote teams serving millions of daily requests and contributed meaningful open-source front-end improvements (reactable data tables) that emphasize accessibility and keyboard support. Based in Philadelphia, he now leads an AI-focused engineering division for nursing at The Health Management Academy, bringing a rare blend of instructional design roots and product-focused systems thinking.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.Ed. Learning Media and Technology, M.Ed. Learning Media and Technology at University of Massachusetts AmherstB.A. Visual Media Arts: Documentary Production Political Communications (minor), B.A. Visual Media Arts: Documentary Production Political Communications (minor) at Emerson College
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
react10
css8
html8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
glittershark/reactable
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Fast, flexible, and simple data tables in React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jason focused on implementing features and making enhancements to the Reactable data table component. Their contributions include adding props for filtering and hiding the filter input, as well as enabling custom text for when no data is displayed. Further work involved adding an onKeyDown handler to table headers to allow sorting by pressing the Enter key. They also updated the test suite to reflect these changes, adding tests for the new features.
datatabledatatablesreact
staterepme/State-Gov-Tracker
Sep 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:38 commits in 6 months
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