Jason Kao
Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Supermicro
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Kao is a Software Quality Assurance Engineer based in San Jose with seven years of experience specializing in embedded firmware testing and automation for complex vehicle systems. He has driven end-to-end QA work at Zero Motorcycles—building pytest-based frameworks, Jenkins declarative pipelines, and hardware interface layers that turned bench-top vehicles into automated test nodes—then continued into a QA role at Supermicro. Jason blends hands-on firmware debugging (C edits, CAN traffic analysis) with infrastructure automation (PowerShell/batch, node orchestration), enabling faster failure analysis and repeatable regression testing. He also brings field-facing troubleshooting experience from customer service roles, giving him a practical understanding of real-world failure modes and customer impact. Known for pragmatic tooling and hardware-in-the-loop creativity, he excels at bridging firmware, test automation, and cross-team coordination to deliver measurable quality improvements.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (62)
data-collection10
cloudtrail10
airbyte10
command-line-interface10
amazon-web-services10
user-guide10
gcp10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
github-api10
google10
etl-framework10
sql10
azure10
aws-glue10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jsoncow/aws-kms-developer-guide
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Official repository of the AWS KMS Developer Guide (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/)
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
amazonkmsamazon-awsaws-kmsaws
jsoncow/aws-cloudformation-user-guide
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
The open source version of the AWS CloudFormation User Guide
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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