Jason Mcintosh
President And Co-founder at Five Borough Fedi Project
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJason Mcintosh is a New York–based writer and technologist with 22 years of experience blending engineering, technical writing, and nonprofit leadership. He co-founded and leads civic and digital-arts nonprofits that run community services like Masto.NYC while also steering documentation programs for cloud database products at Google and elsewhere. A lifelong hacker and freelance toolmaker, he has improved core Perl documentation, secured grants to audit and strengthen docs, and co-authored O’Reilly books on Perl and XML. Equally comfortable shipping developer-facing docs and building web applications, he often moves between hands-on coding, community outreach, and program management. Notably, his career spans biomedical informatics, startup platforms for online games, and public-interest Mastodon moderation—revealing a rare mix of technical depth and civic-minded product leadership.
22 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, Journalism, BA, English, Journalism at University of Maine
Github Skills (84)
perl10
summarize10
gdscript10
blogger10
macros10
cpan10
game-engine9
markdown9
programming-language9
leaderboard9
game-development9
google-docs9
timer9
hide9
dropbox9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jmacdotorg/alisio
Mar 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
jmacdotorg/bise
Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
Summarize current blog readership based on Common Log Format files (e.g. Apache)
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 2 years 8 months
summarizeapache
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