Jason Godesky
Engineering Manager at Transcend
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJason Godesky is an engineering manager and multidisciplinary technologist with 11 years of experience delivering user-centered products by blending hands-on engineering, UX research, and team leadership. He has driven measurable improvements—from boosting test coverage across a legacy React codebase and saving developer time, to leading large Drupal migrations and launching high-traffic front-end systems—while mentoring teams and establishing scalable design and development practices. Comfortable switching between Django/React, Nuxt/Vue, serverless AWS, and design systems, he specializes in rapid prototyping and system-driven design that accelerates time-to-market. Based in Pittsburgh, he’s launched consulting work and now leads engineering at Transcend, bringing a rare combination of product empathy and technical depth that prioritizes delighting users and reducing developer friction.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Anthropology, Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (24)
universal-react9
dice8
tabletop6
react6
discord-bot6
drf-spectacular6
cookiecutter-django6
discord5
character-sheet4
circular-progress4
newman3
javascript3
progress-view3
gradient2
ruby2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jefgodesky/bronze-roller
Apr 2020 - May 2021
A Discord bot that rolls dice for Joshua A.C. Newman's tabletop roleplaying game, The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze.
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
newmanrollsdice-rollsdiscordbot
thefifthworld/api
Sep 2020 - Dec 2023
The Fifth World API
Contributions:89 PRs, 109 pushes, 102 branches in 3 years 3 months
api
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