Jason Mccallister
Founder Software Architect at Snaapi
Chesapeake, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJason Mccallister is a founder and software architect with 12 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer tools from Chesapeake, Virginia. He founded Snaapi to streamline API design and delivery for teams and agencies, pairing rapid prototyping and user research with open-source tooling. Previously he led cloud platform engineering at Pixel & Tonic, designing a multi-region, serverless hosting platform on AWS that sustained a 99.99% SLA and handled thousands of requests per minute. Jason combines hands-on backend work in Go and PHP with DevOps and QA expertise—his open-source contributions include enhancing DynamoDB stream handling for serverless PHP in the widely used Bref framework and improving test infrastructure for Craft CMS. He is comfortable shifting between systems design, test automation, and customer-facing solutions engineering, and remains open to fractional or consulting engagements. Jason holds MS and BTech degrees in computer science and information technology, reflecting a commitment to both practical delivery and continued technical growth.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Colorado Technical University
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Github Skills (26)
test-automation10
docker10
testing10
environment-variables10
craftcms10
dockers10
amazon-dynamodb10
php10
dynamodb10
serverless10
phpunit9
aws-lambda9
bref9
lambdas8
lambda8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
brefphp/bref
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 27 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development and testing of DynamoDB event handling within the Bref PHP framework. Their work included adding functionality to process DynamoDB records, implementing tests to validate these features, and refining the code through style adjustments. This focused on enhancing the serverless functionality of the framework by ensuring proper integration with DynamoDB streams, contributing to the project's support for AWS Lambda and serverless PHP applications.
lambda-layeraws-lambdaphpserverlessbref
craftcms/cms
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
Build bespoke content experiences with Craft.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason focused on improving the testing infrastructure for the Craft CMS project. They added a Docker Compose file for setting up a test environment using PostgreSQL, enabling easier and more consistent testing. Furthermore, the user wrote and integrated new test cases for the `parseEnv` functionality, ensuring the correct handling of environment variables, including boolean values. Finally, the user modified the environment variables setup by setting an empty password or commenting out settings for the docker configuration.
cmsbespokecraftprestashop-modulecraft3
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