Jason Lally
State Chief Data Officer
Upper Southampton Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJason Lally is a seasoned public-sector data leader with 13 years of experience building durable data programs and infrastructure, currently serving as California’s State Chief Data Officer. He has progressed through roles from Mayor’s Innovation Fellow to San Francisco’s Chief Data Officer and senior statewide data leadership, blending urban planning training with information sciences to make data-driven policy work at scale. Jason focuses on pragmatic, long-lived solutions—“building things to last”—and has a track record of operationalizing open data, data services, and engineering in complex government settings. Based in Pennsylvania but experienced across California’s civic tech ecosystem, he brings a rare mix of planning, technical fluency, and institutional knowledge that helps agencies turn messy public data into actionable, accountable services.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Sciences and Technology, BS Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State UniversityMaster's degree City and Regional Planning, Master's degree City and Regional Planning at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (129)
geodata10
san10
geocoding10
geofencing10
policies10
notice10
geofence10
leaflet10
jekyll10
maps9
campus9
content-editor9
storm9
stable9
javascript8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DataSF/draft-publishing-standards
May 2016 - Sep 2020
Draft documentation for DataSF open data publishing standards
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 4 years 4 months
open-datapublishingstandards
DataSF/sf-building-explorer
May 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:64 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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