Jason Chaffee
Staff Engineer (Java Architect - Consultant) at PayPal
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Chaffee is a founder and principal architect with 12+ years of experience scaling engineering organizations and designing mission-critical, cloud-native systems for companies like PayPal, Google, Capital One and Comcast. He blends player-coach leadership with deep hands-on expertise in event-driven architectures, federated SSoT data stores, and Kubernetes-based infrastructures to move teams from 0-1 and 1-10. Currently pioneering AI-native engineering at ZeroOverhead.ai, he’s built a hybrid vector+graph memory layer and multi-agent platform that preserves long-term decision lineage and automates self-correcting engineering canon. A pragmatic advocate for operational excellence, he drives delivery improvements through DORA/SPACE metrics and AI-augmented SDLCs, having implemented Claude/Gemini/Codex workflows in production. Jason’s background spans fintech ledgers to high-concurrency streaming systems, and he’s known for turning complex architectural constraints into measurable business outcomes while mentoring the next generation of technical leaders.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
tty10
api-specification10
web-application9
java9
swagger9
websocket9
browser9
rest9
openapi9
rest-api9
cli8
sbt-plugin8
jarjar8
go8
spring-boot8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jasonchaffee/zsh
Apr 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:111 commits, 240 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 9 months
jasonchaffee/kali-linux
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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