Jason Deland
Principal Software Engineer at Vidyard
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Deland is a Principal Software Engineer based in Ontario with 9 years of focused experience in DevEx, DevOps and AI, currently leading platform and developer experience efforts at Vidyard. He has a proven track record building cloud-native CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and developer tooling across companies from startups to enterprises, including leadership roles at Wealthsimple, PointClickCare and Manulife. Jason’s hands-on expertise spans AWS, Kubernetes and release engineering—he helped shrink release cycles dramatically and ran large-scale build farms earlier in his career. As an active contributor to Mattermost, he automated cross-platform build and release workflows and improved CI reliability through authenticated artifact delivery. Colleagues know him for combining pragmatic architecture with developer productivity coaching, and for quietly turning lengthy release processes into repeatable, automated pipelines. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Windsor and brings a communicator’s sensibility to technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science with a Minor in Communication Studies, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science with a Minor in Communication Studies at University of Windsor
Github Skills (15)
mattermost10
bash10
makefile10
scripting10
build-automation10
cicd10
s3-bucket9
githubaction-workflow9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
github-ci9
dockers5
aws5
docker5
go4
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build/Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build/Release EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 44 commits, 29 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason's contributions primarily revolve around automating and streamlining the build and release processes for the Mattermost project. They focused on integrating the `mmctl` utility, which involved updating the build process to incorporate pre-built binaries and modifying scripts to download releases from GitHub and subsequently from S3. This work included updates to the `Makefile` and `release.mk` files. A significant portion of the commits dealt with ensuring that the CI/CD pipeline correctly fetches the latest releases of `mmctl` across different operating systems, including implementing basic authentication for improved reliability.
mattermostcollaborationgolangreact-nativemonorepo
jaydeland/claw
Jan 2026 - Apr 2026
Better UI app for running code agents in parallel (ClaudeCode, OpenCode, Codex)
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 17 PRs in 2 months
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