Jason Harley
Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Harley is a Staff Software Engineer with over two decades of experience in operations, architecture, and systems engineering, and 11 years focused in software roles across cloud-native and high-frequency finance environments. He excels at making platforms more humane to deploy, operate, and reason about, blending hands-on engineering with technical leadership and team coaching. His recent work includes leading enterprise API and Terraform provider efforts at Honeycomb and continuing platform-scale work at Index Exchange. Jason brings deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Go, and a track record of modernizing multi-region, resilient infrastructures. He frequently serves as the bridge between product, design, and engineering, advocating for practical, operable systems rather than theoretical purity. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs an operator’s pragmatism with an architect’s long-term thinking to turn complex operational challenges into maintainable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at Acadia University
Github Skills (137)
terraform10
gcp10
google-cloud10
ansible-galaxy10
ansible-role10
packer10
service-discovery10
golang10
docker10
percona10
hcl10
terraform-provider10
aws10
datadog10
editor9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jharley/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - May 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 67 pushes, 8 branches in 10 years 11 months
dotfilesvimzsh
honeycombio/terraformer
Apr 2022 - Feb 2024
CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infrastructure to Code
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
cliterraform
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