Jason Mcdermott
Principal Product Manager at Self-employed
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJason Mcdermott is a Principal Product Manager based in Sydney with 13 years of experience building product-led businesses across education, healthcare, retail and marketplaces. He currently leads product and UX at the NSW Education Standards Authority while co-founding Skoutli, where he drove rapid user growth, implemented an AI-powered search that quadrupled self-service revenue, and helped secure early-stage funding. A serial founder and operator, Jason has scaled teams across time zones, raised venture capital, and taken physical product innovations from prototype to 50k+ customers at Dresden Vision. His background in architecture and interactive art informs a design-led approach to product strategy, blending systems thinking with hands-on technical delivery. He also publishes and creates content—podcasting and running a YouTube channel—using storytelling to grow communities and surface insights beyond conventional product metrics.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at Hurlstone AgMArch, Architecture, MArch, Architecture at University of Technology Sydney
Spanish, German
Github Skills (26)
sketch-app7
swift6
tvos6
sketch6
sketch-plugin6
watchos5
macos5
networking5
ios5
python4
leancloud3
integrate3
machine-learning3
cocoascript3
statamic2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jasonmcdermott/Learning-Objective-C
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:137 commits in 1 month
tecnecollective/The-Nature-of-Code-Examples
Jan 2013 - Feb 2013
Contributions:37 commits in 13 days
pythonnaturemachine-learningthe-nature-of-codecode-book
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