Jason Kroll
Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJason Kroll is an applied scientist with 12 years of experience optimizing and modeling large distributed systems, currently driving DynamoDB performance at AWS in Seattle. He combines a strong academic foundation (MS in Computer Science, Tufts) with hands-on engineering across startups and enterprises, from building NLP-driven job-matching and crawling pipelines to migrating social platforms onto graph databases. His work blends statistical analysis, capacity planning, and production ML to squeeze performance and reveal actionable signals in noisy, large-scale data. Notably, he has built self-generating filtering systems and large-scale crawlers that tamed duplicate-heavy datasets—a skill set that informs his current focus on high-throughput database performance.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics, BA, Economics at University of WashingtonMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Tufts University
Russian, Finnish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
ensime9
emacs9
vim9
tmux9
keyword-search8
spacemacs8
keyword7
defaults6
autodesk-forge6
autodesk-model-derivative6
autodesk-viewer6
language-server5
java5
python5
asynchronous4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jasonij/dotfiles
May 2014 - Dec 2020
Contributions:192 commits, 97 pushes in 6 years 8 months
jasonij/JetSetRusty
Feb 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:10 pushes in 3 months
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