Jason Kania
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Kania is a seasoned software and systems architect with 11+ years of experience building resilient, cost-conscious solutions across telecom, healthcare, and antipiracy domains. He combines hands-on engineering—from embedded I2C improvements in the popular espressif/arduino-esp32 project to cloud-native streaming and containerization—with product leadership as founder of an IoT/smart-buildings startup. Known for translating business needs into protected IP and manufacturable designs, he has repeatedly driven performance optimizations and server consolidations that materially cut operating costs. He mentors teams in stream processing, ML techniques, and operational observability, having integrated ELK and AWS analytics at scale. Based in Ottawa with a background in robotics engineering, he favors collaborative, productive work environments and pragmatic solutions that bridge hardware, firmware, and large-scale systems. An early innovator, he has a track record of patent-driven database/geolocation work and hands-on contributions that improve reliability in real-world embedded and cloud systems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Robotics Engineering, Bachelors, Robotics Engineering at University of Victoria
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
i2c10
sys10
esp3210
esp-idf10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
arduino10
spiffs9
angular6
putty6
ng-bootstrap6
arraylist6
windows6
remote-debugging6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
espressif/arduino-esp32
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Arduino core for the ESP32 family of SoCs
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the core I2C communication library for the ESP32 Arduino core. Their work focused on enhancing I2C functionality, specifically addressing issues related to bus resets, handling busy states, and improving long I2C read operations. Furthermore, the user added more detailed testing for SPIFFS operations. Their contributions centered on improving the reliability and robustness of I2C communication within the ESP32 Arduino ecosystem.
arduinoesp32esp-idf
lonerzzz/COOQL
May 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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