Jason L
Associate Technical Director
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJason L is an experienced software leader and engineer with 13+ years building products across games, mobile, SaaS, and cloud platforms, currently serving as Associate Technical Director at Electronic Arts. He co-founded and led technology at Operto, shipping a property-automation SaaS that integrates hardware and real-time controls for hospitality, showing a blend of product thinking and systems engineering. His background spans engineering management and solutions architecture at companies like Rosetta Stone, Activision/Demonware, and Aviso Wealth, with hands-on experience in mobile and backend systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Go validation tooling (govalidator) with practical sanitizers and bug fixes, reflecting a focus on robust input handling. Based in Vancouver, he pairs a startup founder’s grit with leadership in large studios, often translating complex real-time and distributed problems into production-ready solutions. Notably, his career crosses both game online services and IoT-enabled hospitality systems, a less obvious mix that fuels his systems-and-product perspective.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Langara College
Stackoverflow
1,456reputation
218kreached
38answers
7questions
Github Skills (15)
sanitization10
text-manipulation10
unit-testing10
go10
validation10
validations10
regular-expression9
datepicker6
html6
design-patterns6
web-storage6
javascript6
php6
jquery6
jwt6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
asaskevich/govalidator
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
[Go] Package of validators and sanitizers for strings, numerics, slices and structs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the `govalidator` Go library by adding new validation and sanitization functionalities for strings. They implemented functions like `PadLeft`, `PadRight`, and `PadBoth` and updated the README accordingly. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to URL validation, and added new validators for checking the presence of lowercase and uppercase characters. They also refactored the `ToInt` function to handle more types and updated the `InRangeInt` function.
gogovalidatorvalidationvalidation-librarysanitization
jasonlam604/StringizerLua
May 2022 - May 2022
String Manipulation Library for Lua
Contributions:4 releases, 40 commits, 22 PRs in 7 days
lualua-librarylua-scriptstring-manipulation
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.