Jason Garber
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco Meraki
Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJason Garber is a seasoned software engineering technical leader with 25 years in development and 16 years of formal experience building resilient backend systems in Ruby and Python. He combines hands-on coding, test-driven design, and pragmatic architecture to tame legacy monoliths, modernize pipelines, and deliver long-lived, well-factored systems that encode institutional knowledge. As a former COO who scaled a consultancy to $8.5M ARR and now a leader at Cisco Meraki, he blends operational rigor with technical mentorship to reduce tech debt, improve developer experience, and align cross-functional teams. Notable impact includes diagnosing a data-structure defect that preserved $3M in ARR and engineering pipeline improvements that cut costs and failure rates dramatically. Colleagues describe him as warm, direct, and generous with time—an advocate for pair programming, thoughtful diagrams, and sustainable engineering practices. Outside work he tinkers with home automation and IoT, bringing the same curiosity and optimization mindset to personal projects as to large-scale systems.
15 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BA BS Economics Business Administration CIS, BA BS Economics Business Administration CIS at Eastern Mennonite University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
michaelBenin/compass-mixins
May 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:26 commits in 1 year 1 month
jgarber623/eleventy-plugin-markdown
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
An Eleventy plugin for processing Markdown files with markdown-it.
Contributions:6 releases, 9 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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