Jason Harmon
Director Of Product at Kong Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Harmon is a seasoned product and platform leader with nearly 30 years in tech and 13 years focused on scaling APIs, governance and marketplaces. He began as a backend engineer and evolved into a cross-functional executive—serving as CTO at Stoplight and Typeform and leading API strategy at PayPal and Expedia—who bridges engineering, product and business stakeholders. Jason has a track record of driving platform transformations, developer portals and API governance (including API Style Guides) across startups and Fortune 500s, and he helped grow Stoplight through an 8x revenue expansion to exit. At Kong he now leads Konnect Dev Portal and Catalog efforts to improve API consumption and developer success. Known for translating technical complexity into organizational shifts, he combines hands-on architecture experience with customer-facing roadmapping and evangelism. Based in Austin, he also contributed to OpenAPI governance as a founding TDC/TOC member, reflecting his influence in the broader API community.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Spanish
Github Skills (160)
firmware10
swagger10
prism10
oas10
specification10
esp3210
rest-api10
asuswrt-merlin10
openapi10
avr10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
vendor10
atmel10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jasonh-n-austin/api-bdd-tests
Aug 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
testingtesting-toolstest-automationbdd
jharmn/swagger-api-checkstyle
Jun 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 years 8 months
governanceapiapi-governanceswagger-definitionsdefinitions
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