Jason Melendez
Principal UI Engineer at Pentaho
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Melendez is a Principal UI Engineer with over 12 years of professional experience and a lifetime of tinkering—he taught himself programming on an 8-bit home computer and ran bulletin board systems as a teen. He has led front-end architecture and delivery at startups and large firms, rebuilding SPAs with TypeScript, RxJS, Angular, and modern build/test pipelines while coordinating and training offshore teams. As a co-founder he ran full-stack product and DevOps for nearly a decade, shaping SaaS deployments, marketing, and even authoring a 470-page book to support the business. At Waterline and Hitachi Vantara he drove UI modernization for big data products and quickly progressed to principal-level ownership of front-end direction. Based in San Jose, he blends deep front-end craft with practical DevOps and cloud experience (Docker, AWS, Azure) and a curiosity that fuels side projects in IoT, photography, and homebrew coffee roasting. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, cross-cultural team leadership, and a rare historical perspective on how consumer-facing interfaces have evolved.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biotechnology at Santa Clara University
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Github Skills (18)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
deztopia/safetext
Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:97 commits in 9 months
vistajadez/treenode
May 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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