Jason Messmer
Solution Lead at Paychex
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Messmer is a seasoned solution lead with over two decades of software experience and 11 years in leadership roles, currently guiding engineering and QA teams at Paychex to deliver HCM microservices and modern web UIs. He combines hands-on technical depth in Java/Spring, microservices, Kafka, and front-end frameworks with pragmatic architecture tradeoffs, often taking on the most complex implementation and testing challenges himself. Jason is a practiced mentor and coach who runs detailed design sessions, code reviews, hiring and performance feedback cycles to raise team quality and velocity. His background spans embedded real-time systems, CI/CD and configuration management at Xerox to large-scale enterprise payroll systems, giving him rare cross-domain fluency from device firmware to cloud-native services. He emphasizes measurable quality—leading testing strategy and performance validation across dependent teams—while keeping delivery aligned with product constraints. Based in Rochester, NY, he pairs a practical, problem-solving mindset with a continual appetite for learning new technologies.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Accounting & Finance, BS, Computer Science, Accounting & Finance at SUNY Brockport
Github Skills (17)
jquery8
rollupjs8
scrolling7
select27
searching7
jstree7
browserify7
selector6
jscodeshift6
javascript6
selectbox5
numeric5
swc4
stackblitz4
typescript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jmessmer/angular-vs
May 2019 - May 2019
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Contributions:94 commits, 14 PRs, 91 pushes in 3 days
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jmessmer/material-dashboard-test2
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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