Jason Long
Technical Director, Innovation Lab
South Elgin, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Long is an impact-driven technology leader and hands-on engineering manager with nine years of experience building scalable systems and translating complex technical work for non-technical stakeholders. As Technical Director of the Innovation Lab at Human Rights First, he directs engineering teams, shapes product roadmaps, and ensures secure, user-centered development for projects that respond rapidly to technology-driven human rights issues. He concurrently contributes as a Senior Full Stack Engineer at FreeWorld, working across front- and back-end JavaScript, DevOps, and automated monitoring to improve stability and shipping cadence. Jason’s background spans leadership roles from interim CTO to technical bootcamp team lead, giving him a rare blend of operational rigor, talent development, and pragmatic product delivery. Comfortable moving between strategy and implementation, he’s known for instituting lean, repeatable development processes and creatively recruiting technical talent to mission-driven work. Based in South Elgin, IL, he pairs graduate-level CIS training with a track record of saving engineering time through practical automation and process improvements.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development and Computer Science, Full Stack Web Development and Computer Science at BloomTechDeVry University
Github Skills (52)
kubernetes10
docker10
yeoman-generator10
jdl10
generator10
java10
webpack10
jhipster10
translate10
spring-boot10
react10
angular10
mysql9
databases9
sql9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
octgsoftware/sql-to-jdl
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Tool to translate SQL databases to JDL format of jHipster (Created due to existing databases to be generated with jHipster and build angular-java web)
Contributions:6 PRs, 79 pushes, 90 branches in 5 months
mysqljava-webjdljhipstersql
octgsoftware/openshift-tasks
May 2019 - Dec 2022
Sample JBoss EAP (WildFly) App for OpenShift
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years 7 months
wildflyeapjbossjboss-eapopenshift
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