Jason Dora is a seasoned Head of Engineering with over 20 years of hands-on programming and leadership experience across satellite operations, AAA game development, and IP management. He designs and ships end-to-end systems—from real-time SatOps gateways and image transcoding pipelines used by government agencies to scalable analytics, ERP, and e-commerce platforms—bridging low-level systems work with product strategy. A proven startup mentor and cross-functional leader, Jason has modernized infrastructure, led CTO-level tech transformations, and taught technical courses at UCLA’s IMMEX program. He’s fluent in a wide spectrum of technologies (Linux stacks, Python, SQL/NoSQL, cloud services, Kafka, Redis, and more) and once compressed satellite image processing from hours to minutes—an example of his focus on pragmatic performance gains. Notably, he combines creative instincts (authored SQL poetry and produced game art) with rigorous systems design, making him equally at home in poetry, pixels, and production-grade backends.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Esperanza High School
Certification Software Engineering, Certification Software Engineering at California State University, Fullerton
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