Jason Carter
Manager, Infrastructure Engineering at Mechanical Orchard
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Carter is a founding engineer and infrastructure-focused software leader with 12 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, real-time communications, and developer tooling across startups and enterprise teams. He blends hands-on engineering in Ruby, Kubernetes, and Elixir with people-first leadership—scaling teams through mentorship, psychological safety, and low-ego collaboration. Jason has led migrations to Kubernetes at multiple companies, built developer-facing infrastructure products, and launched an AI-infrastructure open-source startup focused on telemetry and orchestration for agent workloads. Comfortable as both IC and manager, he also founded Vex Communications and has a track record of turning R&D and messy legacy systems into reliable, scalable production services.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Political Science and Government, Political Science and Government at Brigham Young University
English
Github Skills (194)
slack-bot10
charts10
multipass9
axis9
kubernetes-cluster9
helm9
azure9
mediarecorder9
ubuntu9
vms9
google-cloud9
k8s9
ftp-server9
namespaces9
kubernetes-dashboard9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jasonwc/setup
Jul 2019 - May 2021
Ansible Playbooks for setting up WSL/Multipass VMs
Contributions:66 commits, 18 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 11 months
wslvmssettingansiblelinux
jasonwc/noobernetes.io
May 2018 - Jan 2021
An introduction to Kubernetes, for noobs!
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 8 months
kubernetes-deploymentvelerokubenetesnamespacesnoobs
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