Jason Del Ponte
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJason Del Ponte is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 13 years of experience building reliable, model-driven SDKs and cloud-native back ends, and currently contributing to systems at Anduril after a long tenure at AWS. He specializes in Go, C/C++, and JavaScript, has led the AWS SDK for Go v1 and v2 efforts, and has driven protocol and test improvements in widely used projects like Smithy and the AWS SDK repositories. Jason combines hands-on engineering—from embedded and avionics trainers to distributed services and EKS/etcd scale work—with practical DevOps and security experience running public-facing Linux servers. An avid learner and early adopter of Go, he publishes open-source experiments (including a multiplayer WebSocket game) and built a well-received Android chronograph app with ~7,800 downloads and a 4.6 rating, showing a knack for turning curiosity into user-facing products.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering Technologies/Technicians, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering Technologies/Technicians at DeVry University
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Github Skills (30)
ec10
testing10
http10
aws-sdk10
amazon-ec210
go10
sdk10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
smithy10
s3-bucket10
xml-serialization9
rest9
documentation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
Oct 2017 - Sep 2022
AWS SDK for the Go programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 releases, 571 reviews, 527 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Jason was involved in a significant refactoring of the SDK, including the removal of the `Session` and `ConfigProvider` types in favor of a new package called `external` for external configuration loading. The changes involved restructuring packages, moving configuration options, and updating API methods to use a new request type. Furthermore, the user contributed to the addition of JSON value support, improvements to API documentation generation, and the introduction of a default HTTP client with a larger connection pool, indicating a focus on enhancing the SDK's functionality and usability. Finally, they implemented several other improvements relating to configuration.
golangaws-sdksdkgoaws
aws/aws-sdk-go
Apr 2015 - Aug 2022
AWS SDK for the Go programming language (In Maintenance Mode, End-of-Life on 07/31/2025). The AWS SDK for Go v2 is available here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 117 reviews, 1240 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason's contributions focused on updating and adding new features to the AWS SDK for Go, including improvements to the S3 Manager and various AWS service models. They updated error message handling, implemented retry mechanisms for specific errors, and added support for HTTPS proxies requiring client certificates. They also improved the structure and testing of the codebase, showing attention to detail and reliability in the library.
golangaws-sdksdkgoaws
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