Jason Goltermann
Senior Software Engineer at Ad Hoc LLC
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJason Goltermann is an experienced backend engineer with nearly two decades of hands-on experience designing and scaling distributed systems, specializing in Java/Kotlin microservices, Kafka-driven event architectures, and AWS-based platforms. He has led API platform initiatives, standardized observability and deployment practices, and driven measurable developer productivity gains—building tools that cut onboarding from days to minutes and enterprise templates adopted across organizations. Jason blends deep reliability engineering with practical automation, from Protobuf migrations and schema management to structured logging and CI/CD for Kubernetes. Lately he’s pioneered AI-assisted development workflows in production, using structured planning and automated validation to accelerate feature delivery across unfamiliar codebases without sacrificing reliability. A former USAF Missile Combat Crew Commander, he brings disciplined operational thinking to incident diagnosis and resilient system design, and maintains a taste for reverse-engineering and rapid iteration demonstrated in open-source mod and tooling work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Cairo American CollegeBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at East Carolina University
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Github Skills (17)
artificial-intelligence10
python10
llm10
openai10
autonomous-agents10
ai10
autogpt10
claude10
gpt10
agentic-ai10
cloud-foundry6
xinput5
cli5
command-line3
windows-driver3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Kriil/rimworld-combat-training
Oct 2018 - Nov 2020
Adds a combat training work type to RimWorld
Contributions:19 commits, 11 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years
trainingcombatgamerimworld
Kriil/ostranauts
Mar 2026 - Mar 2026
Contributions:13 pushes in 6 days
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