Summary
Jason Lyles is a seasoned web developer with 12 years of experience building and modernizing Rails-based systems for enterprise and high-traffic political campaigns. He has a strong track record refactoring legacy codebases, improving database and application performance, and balancing feature delivery with long-term maintainability. Jason built highly reliable services that processed hundreds of millions of requests with millisecond latency and designed resilient ingestion pipelines for messy, evolving XML schemas. He’s mentored junior engineers, led data-model redesigns, and created analytics and ops tools used across finance, product, and operations teams. Now based in Richmond, VA, he brings practical full-stack expertise and a focus on scalable, observable systems to his current role with the Virginia House of Delegates. An MIS graduate, he blends business-minded problem solving with deep hands-on engineering.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management Information Systems, BS Management Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Business