Jason George
Head Of Software Engineering at Black Box Studios
Stellenbosch Local Municipality, South Africa
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Top SchoolJason George is a pragmatic software leader with eight years of full-stack engineering experience who now heads Software Engineering at Silvertree Education, shaping accredited developer curricula and bridging academia with industry. He combines hands-on delivery—spanning Go, TypeScript, .NET, and containerized architectures—with people leadership, having led product reinventions, internal tooling, and crisis-response platforms for clients. Jason pairs technical mentorship and program management with cross-functional collaboration, driving accreditation, industry partnerships, and real-world assessments that prepare graduates for production systems. Outside work he channels creativity as a musician and long-time volunteer ministry director, a background that informs his strengths in team culture, communication, and volunteer leadership. Notably, he has driven modernization efforts (microservices, OpenID/OAuth2 integrations) that scaled multi-tenant products while continuing to ship client-facing features.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BEng: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computer Software Engineering, BEng: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computer Software Engineering at Stellenbosch UniversityPostgraduate Diploma: Development Finance Development Economics and International Development, Postgraduate Diploma: Development Finance Development Economics and International Development at Stellenbosch Business School
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Github Skills (52)
login-system9
authentication9
cpp8
visual-studio8
typescript8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
visual-studio-code8
microsoft7
electron7
golang7
css7
windows7
cas7
cmake7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IMQS/nf
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
Not a Framework for Go HTTP services
Contributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 17 commits in 11 months
golanggo-httphttp-servicesframeworkhttp-server
jasonkofo/log
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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