Jason Chase
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJason Chase is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable ML and front-end systems, currently measuring and improving Gemini at Google DeepMind. He spent eight years at Google developing NLP pipelines and training/finetuning large language models used across Alphabet products, and earlier helped scale athenahealth’s messaging platform and OCR/ML for medical forms. Jason contributes to notable open-source projects such as the Chromium dashboard—improving UI, offline service workers, and build tooling—and fixed concurrency issues in Chrome Apps’ storage APIs on mobile. He combines deep ML production experience with pragmatic engineering: from browser front-end refinements to low-level concurrency fixes and build system refactors. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings a rare mix of research-grade model work and hands-on shipping experience across web, mobile, and backend systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at Yale UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese, French, Japanese
Github Skills (16)
service-worker10
javas10
gulp10
javascript10
android-development10
java10
concurrency10
testing9
dashboard9
ios9
html9
objective-c9
css9
web-components8
polymer8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps
Aug 2014 - Apr 2015
Chrome apps on Android and iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:102 commits, 17 pushes, 29 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to the Chrome Apps on Android project by implementing and fixing issues related to the `chrome.storage` API. They added locking mechanisms to prevent concurrent write operations, ensuring data consistency during set, remove, and clear actions. Furthermore, they added tests for concurrency scenarios related to `set` calls and addressed a compile error. The user also implemented various iOS-specific features for the chrome.system.cpu, .display, .memory, and .network APIs.
cordovajavascriptandroidchromeios
GoogleChrome/chromium-dashboard
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Chrome Status Dashboard
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 17 commits, 4 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Chrome Status Dashboard. They implemented features such as URL linkification in comments, integrated Opera and Android Webview information in status sections, and added service worker functionality for offline access. Furthermore, the user refactored build processes by switching from Grunt to Gulp, and made improvements to the display and functionality of various pages and elements.
statuschromestatus-dashboarddashboardmetrics
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.