Jason Derose
Senior Software Engineer at Sky Peak Technologies
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarJason Derose is a senior software engineer with 25+ years of Linux and 20+ years of Python experience who excels at rapid, test-driven development and learning complex technologies quickly. He brings deep expertise across networking, storage, distributed systems, security, applied cryptography, and reliability engineering, and is currently exploring Rust and PyTorch. His career spans roles at System76, Red Hat, Mozilla, and startups where he built imaging systems, HSM-backed firmware signing, real-time collaborative media infrastructure, and security plugins for FreeIPA. As founder of Zebra Factory he’s authoring Zebrachain, an open-source project that pairs a quantum-secure logged signing system with a high-performance Git-like object store. Based in Longmont, Colorado, Jason combines pragmatic production engineering with a penchant for cryptographic logging and hardware enablement.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (21)
nuxt-content10
driver10
linux9
documentation8
chain8
vaapi6
docker6
ubuntu6
nvidia5
kubernetes4
software-update4
gnome3
pygobject3
packaging3
signing2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
system76/nvidia-graphics-drivers
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 1 month
driversnvidiapackaginglinuxubuntu
system76/pihsm
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:111 commits in 3 months
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