Jason Dawson
Linux Engineer at Ascend Learning
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJason Dawson is a seasoned Linux Engineer with 11 years of focused infrastructure and systems experience and over two decades in enterprise IT. Based in the Kansas City area, he specializes in Linux/Unix administration, server provisioning, automation, and DevOps practices for high-availability environments, with a strong grounding in load balancing, Active Directory integration, and security patching. His career spans major financial and telecom institutions where he led complex application support, incident and change management, and designed operational workarounds that kept critical services on schedule. Jason combines hands-on troubleshooting and root-cause analysis with process standardization and documentation, often serving as the “go-to” technical lead on cross-functional projects. He pairs technical depth with a background in IT management and a side interest in Spanish language studies, reflecting both operational rigor and broader communication skills. Colleagues rely on him to turn messy production incidents into repeatable, automated solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Atchison HighM.A, Management Information Technology Management, M.A, Management Information Technology Management at Webster UniversityMaster of Divinity (MDiv) - Incomplete, Master of Divinity (MDiv) - Incomplete at Midwestern Baptist Theological SeminaryBachelor's degree, Spanish Language and Literature, Bachelor's degree, Spanish Language and Literature at Benedictine College( Language Study ), Spanish, A, ( Language Study ), Spanish, A at ideal-school.com
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Github Skills (6)
fundamentals6
javascript6
community-management4
json1
authentication1
jwt1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dasebast/imgwire
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 43 PRs, 51 pushes in 26 days
jasondawson/poll
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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