Jason Harrop
Founder & CEO at Plutext
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarJason Harrop is a seasoned founder and technology leader with 18 years of experience building document-centric software and startups from Melbourne. As Founder & CEO of Plutext since 2007 and former Co‑Founder of Native Documents, he combines product vision with deep technical and commercial know-how in enterprise document automation. Earlier roles as Founder & CTO of Exari (SpeedLegal), a senior manager in government online services, and a Telstra emerging technology specialist show a track record of taking legal and enterprise workflows into scalable products. He moves comfortably between strategy, engineering and customer-facing leadership, with particular expertise in document formats, automation and enterprise integrations. Jason’s career blends entrepreneurial grit with practical delivery—he has repeatedly turned complex legal and gov tech requirements into viable, acquisitive software businesses. Based in Melbourne, he brings a long-term focus on sustainable product-market fit rather than short-term exits.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
15,547reputation
3.6mreached
841answers
41questions
java
top-1%
powerpoint
top-5%
jaxb
top-5%
xml
top-5%
pdf
top-5%
apache-poi
top-1%
Github Skills (200)
msword10
xlsx10
docx10
openxml-sdk10
oauth10
xsl-fo10
docx4j10
openxml10
xhtml10
apache-poi10
scribe10
excel10
jaxb10
certificate10
databinding10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
plutext/OpenDoPE-WAR
Aug 2011 - May 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
plutext/docx4j
Oct 2007 - Jan 2023
JAXB-based Java library for Word docx, Powerpoint pptx, and Excel xlsx files
Contributions:3 reviews, 5722 commits, 75 PRs in 15 years 5 months
docxexceljavajaxbpowerpoint
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