Jason Cowdy
Senior Director Of Engineering at Northwestern Mutual
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Cowdy is a senior engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building developer platforms and modernizing SDLC at Northwestern Mutual. As Senior Director of Engineering he leads teams that create golden paths, shared libraries, and a developer portal to streamline cloud-native onboarding and boost engineering productivity. He is data-driven—using DORA metrics—to quantify impact across faster deployments, fewer defects, and more time for innovation. Jason’s background spans full-stack development and embedded OS research, giving him a practical appreciation for both low-level systems and developer-facing tools. Based in Milwaukee, he combines hands-on technical experience with a people-first mission to make engineering at scale happier and more efficient. An uncommon strength is translating operational pain points into reusable, company-wide platforms that reduce friction for hundreds of teams.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Marquette University
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
JCowdy/semantic-test-pkg
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Test repo for semantic release automation
Contributions:7 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
test-repotestingrelease-automationsemantic-releaseautomation
JCowdy/archerbot
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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