Jason Colyer
Full Stack Engineer at GitLab
Manvel, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJason Colyer is a pragmatic Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building, operating, and improving large-scale web platforms, currently contributing to GitLab's product engineering. His background spans deep support and operations leadership—managing global support teams, owning support tooling, and driving reliability—before transitioning back to feature development, which gives him a rare blend of customer empathy and product-grade engineering. Jason consistently ships secure, well-tested code and brings a data-driven approach to performance and quality improvements across fast-moving, high-scale environments. He has strong Linux and DevOps roots from roles at FlyData, DigitalOcean, and HostGator, which inform his practical automation and observability instincts. Based in Manvel, Texas, he pairs structured process-building experience with a track record of reducing escalations and improving support KPIs—an asset when turning real-world customer problems into durable product solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and English, Mathematics and English at San Jacinto CollegeHigh School Mathematics Latin, High School Mathematics Latin at Clear Brook High School
English, Latin
Github Skills (10)
gitlab-ce10
gitlab10
gitea10
rails10
gitlab-api10
ruby10
resolv3
whois2
cms1
dns1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
reyloc/slack-wrapper
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
reyloc/legendary.equipment
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:88 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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