Jason Gillett
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Instructure
Vineyard, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJason Gillett is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at Instructure with six years of experience building and operating Canvas LMS for higher education. He leads a team of five engineers, running sprint ceremonies, 1:1s, and day-to-day execution across a stack of React, GraphQL, REST, and a large Rails monolith on AWS. Beyond product delivery, Jason is exploring context engineering—building agentic workflows, Claude Code plugins, and developer-facing skills systems—to accelerate onboarding and shipping. His background includes teaching cloud and observability topics at BYU, which informs his focus on developer productivity and reliable systems. Based in Vineyard, Utah, he’s completing an MBA while continuing hands-on engineering and leadership. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technical lead who pairs pedagogy with practical tooling to make teams more effective.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science - Emphasis in Software Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computer Science - Emphasis in Software Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Brigham Young UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Utah Valley University
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Github Skills (9)
lms10
canvas-lms10
bazel5
bazel-rules4
visual-studio-code4
vscode4
vscode-extension4
visual-studio4
language-server3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jasonxris/Application-Monitoring-with-Prometheus-and-Grafana-Tutorial
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
jasonxris/cs324
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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