Jason Mead
Lead Consultant at Apex Systems
West Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Mead is a lead consultant and senior software engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience delivering scalable, data-driven web applications and APIs across finance and payments. He has repeatedly driven architecture shifts—introducing microservices, event-driven patterns, CI/CD, and cloud deployments—to improve performance and operational efficiency at companies like Dwolla, Wells Fargo, and John Deere Financial. Jason blends strong full-stack skills (JavaScript, Scala, C#, .NET, HTML/CSS) with deep expertise in distributed systems, big data, and machine learning to solve high-throughput, low-latency problems. Notable projects include integrating with the Federal Reserve, designing text-based banking for the unbanked, and building touchless payment and invoice-processing systems from legacy data. He’s pragmatic about standards-based design and separation of concerns, and mentors teams to adopt scalable, maintainable practices that reduce contention and automate manual workflows.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Finance, Bachelor of Science - BS Finance at Iowa State University
Github Skills (39)
http10
dotnet10
nancy10
mono10
dotnet-core10
dwolla8
windows-store8
ruby-wrapper6
sdk5
php5
sbt-plugin3
data-contract3
terraform2
scala2
ruby2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jasonmead/simple-json
Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
dotnetjson-libraryc-sharpcsharpjson
jasonmead/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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